U+0DDA "ේ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Diga Kombuva Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0DDA "ේ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Diga Kombuva is a combining diacritical mark used in the Sinhala script to indicate a long vowel sound, specifically modifying the inherent vowel of a consonant to produce a prolonged 'eː' sound, as in the pronunciation of the first syllable of the word "kēle" meaning forest. It appears as a horizontal line above the consonant glyph and operates as part of a complex system of vowel signs in Sinhala orthography, where it must be combined with a base consonant character to form a complete syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DDA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Vowel Sign Diga Kombuva |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ෙ" U+0DD9 Sinhala Vowel Sign Kombuva "්" U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ේ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ේ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dda |