U+0DD8 "ෘ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ෘ
U+0DD8 "ෘ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla is a combining diacritical mark used in the Sinhala script to represent a vowel sound attached to a consonant. It appears as a small, curved open shape placed above the consonant letter and indicates a specific short vowel sound, similar to a Latin "i" in words like "g" gaetra" or "g" ginne. As a vowel sign, it modifies the inherent vowel of a preceding consonant, commonly used in native Sinhala words and in transliterating Sanskrit words in Buddhist and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DD8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ෘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ෘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dd8 |