U+0DAE "ථ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Tayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ථ
U+0DAE "ථ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Tayanna is a glyph in the Sinhala script used primarily in Sri Lanka to write the Sinhala language, representing an aspirated voiceless dental stop consonant, akin to the "th" sound in the English word "thin." This character is part of the Sinhala consonants categorized as "mahaapraana," or aspirated letters, and is formed by adding an extra diacritic-like feature to its unaspirated counterpart, "ත" (tayanna). It appears in written Sinhala as a distinct letter, often transcribed as "tha" in romanization, and plays a key role in accurately representing borrowed words and native vocabulary that require this specific phonetic quality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DAE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Tayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ථ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ථ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dae |