U+0DA9 "ඩ" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Ddayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඩ
U+0DA9 "ඩ" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Ddayanna is a symbol from the Sinhala script, which is primarily used to write the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka. It represents a voiced retroflex stop consonant, specifically the sound of a soft "d" as pronounced in certain South Asian languages, and its name "Alpapraana Ddayanna" indicates that it is an unaspirated sound produced with minimal breath. This character is part of the larger Sinhala alphabet, which is an abugida where each letter inherently carries a vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. The "ඩ" is used in various Sinhala words and is essential for accurately representing the phonetic nuances of the language, contributing to its rich literary and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DA9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Ddayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0da9 |