U+0DC2 "ෂ" Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Sayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ෂ
U+0DC2 "ෂ" Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Sayanna is a distinctive consonant in the Sinhala script, representing a retroflex sibilant sound typically transliterated as "sha" or "ṣa." It is part of the Sinhala alphabet used for the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka, and its name "Muurdhaja Sayanna" refers to its classification as a retroflex (or cerebral) consonant, pronounced with the tongue curled back against the palate. This letter appears in the Sinhala Unicode block and is commonly used in writing words of both native and derived origin, including those from Pali and Sanskrit, where it helps distinguish specific phonetic nuances that are not present in other sibilant letters like "ස" (sa) or "ශ" (śa).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DC2 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Sayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ෂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ෂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DC2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dc2 |