U+0DC1 "ශ" Sinhala Letter Taaluja Sayanna Unicode Character

U+0DC1 "ශ" Sinhala Letter Taaluja Sayanna is a character used in the Sinhala script, the primary writing system for the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka, representing the voiceless palatal fricative sound /ʃ/ found in words like "ship" or "shade". This letter is part of the consonantal inventory of Sinhala and is often romanized as "sh", appearing in a variety of common words from early Sinhala vocabulary as well as in loanwords from sources such as Sanskrit and Pali. Its name "Taaluja Sayanna" in Sinhala grammar indicates that it is a sibilant sound articulated against the palate, or the hard part of the roof of the mouth, distinguishing it from other sibilant letters in the script.