U+0DBD "ල" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Layanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ල
U+0DBD "ල" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Layanna is a dental approximant consonant in the Sinhala script, representing the sound /l/ produced with the tongue against the teeth, as opposed to the retroflex L sound. It is part of the Sinhala language, the official language of Sri Lanka, and appears in the Unicode block for Sinhala at code point U+0DBD. This character is used in writing Sinhala words and is distinguishable by its rounded, looped shape, often appearing in common vocabulary such as "ලෝකය" (world) or "පාලනය" (administration).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DBD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Dantaja Layanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ල |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ල |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dbd |