U+0DDD "ෝ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Kombuva Haa Diga Aela-Pilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0DDD "ෝ" Sinhala Vowel Sign Kombuva Haa Diga Aela-Pilla is a combining diacritical mark used in the Sinhala script to modify a consonant. It represents the long vowel sound "o" and is formed by combining two distinct elements: the Kombuva, a curved mark placed to the right of the consonant, and the Diga Aela-Pilla, a horizontal stroke added above the consonant. When applied to a base consonant letter, this vowel sign changes the inherent vowel from the default short "a" to a long "o," producing sounds like "koo" or "goo." It is an essential component of Sinhala orthography, appearing frequently in written text to distinguish word meanings based on vowel length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DDD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Vowel Sign Kombuva Haa Diga Aela-Pilla |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ො" U+0DDC Sinhala Vowel Sign Kombuva Haa Aela-Pilla "්" U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ෝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ෝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ddd |