U+0D9B "ඛ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0D9B "ඛ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna is a symbol used in the Sinhala script to represent the aspirated velar plosive sound, roughly equivalent to the "kh" sound in English words like "blockhead." It belongs to the consonant inventory of Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Sri Lanka, and the term "Mahaapraana Kayanna" denotes its classification as a high-aspiration consonant, distinguishing it from its non-aspirated counterpart. This character is encoded in the Unicode Sinhala block, which supports the writing system's rich phonetic distinctions, and it plays a role in preserving accurate pronunciation and spelling in Sinhala text.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0D9B
Name
Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ඛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ඛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xB6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0D9B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000D9B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0d9b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Sinhala