U+0DB4 "ප" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Payanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0DB4 "ප" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Payanna is the sixteenth letter of the Sinhala alphabet, representing an unaspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound, similar to the 'p' in the English word "spin." It belongs to the Sinhala script used primarily for writing the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka, and its name "Alpapraana Payanna" indicates that it is pronounced with minimal or no aspiration, distinguishing it from its aspirated counterpart. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Sinhala, which ranges from U+0D80 to U+0DFF, and it plays a fundamental role in forming words and syllables within the rich phonetic inventory of the Sinhala writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DB4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Payanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ප |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ප |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0db4 |