U+0DEB "෫" Sinhala Lith Digit Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
෫
U+0DEB "෫" Sinhala Lith Digit Five is a numeral from the Sinhala script used primarily in historical or traditional Sri Lankan contexts, specifically in lith or grantha-like inscriptions and religious manuscripts. It represents the digit 5 and is part of a specialized set of Sinhala Lith digits that differ from the standard modern Sinhala numerals, often appearing in palimpsests, old coinage, or astrological charts. This character encodes a numeric value within the Unicode standard to support the preservation and digital representation of ancient Sinhala writing systems, ensuring that scholars and linguists can accurately transcribe and analyze historical documents without ambiguity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DEB |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Lith Digit Five |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ෫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ෫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0deb |