U+0DBA "ය" Sinhala Letter Yayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ය
U+0DBA "ය" Sinhala Letter Yayanna is the twenty-eighth letter of the Sinhala alphabet and represents the voiced palatal approximant sound /j/, similar to the English "y" in "yes". It is used as a consonant in the Sinhala script, which is primarily employed to write the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka. As a foundational character, it appears in numerous common words and serves as a base form for vowel diacritics, which modify its inherent vowel sound. Historically, the letter derives from the ancient Brahmi script and retains a distinct curved stroke that is characteristic of Sinhala typography, making it an essential component for accurate written communication in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DBA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Yayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ය |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ය |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dba |