U+0DA1 "ඡ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0DA1 "ඡ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna is a character in the Sinhala script, representing the aspirated voiceless palatal stop consonant sound, pronounced similarly to the "ch" sound in the English word "cheese" but with an added breath of air. It belongs to the category of "Mahaapraana" or "heavy breath" consonants in Sinhala phonetics, distinguishing it from its unaspirated counterpart. This letter is used in the Sinhala language of Sri Lanka, where it appears in both indigenous words and loanwords, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text representation and processing of the Sinhala writing system.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0DA1
Name
Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ඡ
HTML Hex Encoding
ඡ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xB6 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0DA1
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000DA1
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0da1
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Sinhala