U+0DC0 "ව" Sinhala Letter Vayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ව
U+0DC0 "ව" Sinhala Letter Vayanna is the thirty third consonant in the Sinhala abugida, representing the sound [ʋa] regardless of its name, which derives from the Sanskrit letter "va" and is used to denote the voiced labiodental approximant consonant. In the Sinhala writing system, this character serves as a foundational element for forming syllables when combined with vowel diacritics, and it is commonly found in a wide range of native Sinhala words as well as in loanwords from Pali and Sanskrit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DC0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Vayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ව |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ව |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dc0 |