U+0DB0 "ධ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Dayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ධ
U+0DB0 "ධ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Dayanna is used in the Sinhala script, the writing system for the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka, and it represents a voiced aspirated dental plosive consonant sound, pronounced like the “dh” in “adhere” but with more breath. This character belongs to the category of aspirated consonants in Sinhala phonology, known as “mahaapraana” letters, indicating a stronger burst of air during pronunciation. In the Sinhala abugida, it serves as a distinct glyph that can combine with vowel diacritics to form various syllables, and its usage is essential for accurately writing many native Sinhala words, particularly those deriving from classical Pali and Sanskrit borrowings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DB0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Dayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ධ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ධ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0db0 |