U+0DAA "ඪ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Ddayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඪ
U+0DAA "ඪ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Ddayanna is a character in the Sinhala script used primarily to write the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka. This particular letter represents a retroflex aspirated consonant, specifically the sound /ɖʰa/, and is part of a set of aspirated consonants in the Sinhala alphabet. Its name, "Mahaapraana Ddayanna," indicates that it is a "heavy aspirated" or breathy-voiced version of the retroflex D sound, distinguishing it from its unaspirated counterpart. In modern Sinhala usage, this character appears in formal writing, classical texts, and transliterations of loanwords, though it is less common in everyday speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DAA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Ddayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0daa |