The Sinhala range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Sinhala script is used for the Sinhala language (also known as Sinhalese), which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is used by the majority of the people of Sri Lanka.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Sinhala Unicode from Windows Vista onwards.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Akshar Unicode, Dinamina, Free Idg Serif, Free Sans, Free Serif, Iskoola Pota, KaputaUnicode, LKLUG, Malithi Web and Potha.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
A product called Helawadana 2000 claims to include Unicode-compatible fonts and to allow Sinhala to be used in Windows applications. More information is available on the Microimage Web site.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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ෆං | 3458 | ෆං | 0D82 | SINHALA SIGN ANUSVARAYA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆඃ | 3459 | ෆඃ | 0D83 | SINHALA SIGN VISARGAYA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
අ | 3461 | අ | 0D85 | SINHALA LETTER AYANNA |
ආ | 3462 | ආ | 0D86 | SINHALA LETTER AAYANNA |
ඇ | 3463 | ඇ | 0D87 | SINHALA LETTER AEYANNA |
ඈ | 3464 | ඈ | 0D88 | SINHALA LETTER AEEYANNA |
ඉ | 3465 | ඉ | 0D89 | SINHALA LETTER IYANNA |
ඊ | 3466 | ඊ | 0D8A | SINHALA LETTER IIYANNA |
උ | 3467 | උ | 0D8B | SINHALA LETTER UYANNA |
ඌ | 3468 | ඌ | 0D8C | SINHALA LETTER UUYANNA |
ඍ | 3469 | ඍ | 0D8D | SINHALA LETTER IRUYANNA |
ඎ | 3470 | ඎ | 0D8E | SINHALA LETTER IRUUYANNA |
ඏ | 3471 | ඏ | 0D8F | SINHALA LETTER ILUYANNA |
ඐ | 3472 | ඐ | 0D90 | SINHALA LETTER ILUUYANNA |
එ | 3473 | එ | 0D91 | SINHALA LETTER EYANNA |
ඒ | 3474 | ඒ | 0D92 | SINHALA LETTER EEYANNA |
ඓ | 3475 | ඓ | 0D93 | SINHALA LETTER AIYANNA |
ඔ | 3476 | ඔ | 0D94 | SINHALA LETTER OYANNA |
ඕ | 3477 | ඕ | 0D95 | SINHALA LETTER OOYANNA |
ඖ | 3478 | ඖ | 0D96 | SINHALA LETTER AUYANNA |
ක | 3482 | ක | 0D9A | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA KAYANNA |
ඛ | 3483 | ඛ | 0D9B | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA KAYANNA |
ග | 3484 | ග | 0D9C | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA GAYANNA |
ඝ | 3485 | ඝ | 0D9D | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA GAYANNA |
ඞ | 3486 | ඞ | 0D9E | SINHALA LETTER KANTAJA NAASIKYAYA |
ඟ | 3487 | ඟ | 0D9F | SINHALA LETTER SANYAKA GAYANNA |
ච | 3488 | ච | 0DA0 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA CAYANNA |
ඡ | 3489 | ඡ | 0DA1 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA CAYANNA |
ජ | 3490 | ජ | 0DA2 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA JAYANNA |
ඣ | 3491 | ඣ | 0DA3 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA JAYANNA |
ඤ | 3492 | ඤ | 0DA4 | SINHALA LETTER TAALUJA NAASIKYAYA |
ඥ | 3493 | ඥ | 0DA5 | SINHALA LETTER TAALUJA SANYOOGA NAAKSIKYAYA |
ඦ | 3494 | ඦ | 0DA6 | SINHALA LETTER SANYAKA JAYANNA |
ට | 3495 | ට | 0DA7 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA TTAYANNA |
ඨ | 3496 | ඨ | 0DA8 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA TTAYANNA |
ඩ | 3497 | ඩ | 0DA9 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA DDAYANNA |
ඪ | 3498 | ඪ | 0DAA | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA DDAYANNA |
ණ | 3499 | ණ | 0DAB | SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA NAYANNA |
ඬ | 3500 | ඬ | 0DAC | SINHALA LETTER SANYAKA DDAYANNA |
ත | 3501 | ත | 0DAD | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA TAYANNA |
ථ | 3502 | ථ | 0DAE | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA TAYANNA |
ද | 3503 | ද | 0DAF | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA DAYANNA |
ධ | 3504 | ධ | 0DB0 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA DAYANNA |
න | 3505 | න | 0DB1 | SINHALA LETTER DANTAJA NAYANNA |
ඳ | 3507 | ඳ | 0DB3 | SINHALA LETTER SANYAKA DAYANNA |
ප | 3508 | ප | 0DB4 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA PAYANNA |
ඵ | 3509 | ඵ | 0DB5 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA PAYANNA |
බ | 3510 | බ | 0DB6 | SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA BAYANNA |
භ | 3511 | භ | 0DB7 | SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA BAYANNA |
ම | 3512 | ම | 0DB8 | SINHALA LETTER MAYANNA |
ඹ | 3513 | ඹ | 0DB9 | SINHALA LETTER AMBA BAYANNA |
ය | 3514 | ය | 0DBA | SINHALA LETTER YAYANNA |
ර | 3515 | ර | 0DBB | SINHALA LETTER RAYANNA |
ල | 3517 | ල | 0DBD | SINHALA LETTER DANTAJA LAYANNA |
ව | 3520 | ව | 0DC0 | SINHALA LETTER VAYANNA |
ශ | 3521 | ශ | 0DC1 | SINHALA LETTER TAALUJA SAYANNA |
ෂ | 3522 | ෂ | 0DC2 | SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA SAYANNA |
ස | 3523 | ස | 0DC3 | SINHALA LETTER DANTAJA SAYANNA |
හ | 3524 | හ | 0DC4 | SINHALA LETTER HAYANNA |
ළ | 3525 | ළ | 0DC5 | SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA LAYANNA |
ෆ | 3526 | ෆ | 0DC6 | SINHALA LETTER FAYANNA |
ෆ් | 3530 | ෆ් | 0DCA | SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆා | 3535 | ෆා | 0DCF | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN AELA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆැ | 3536 | ෆැ | 0DD0 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KETTI AEDA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෑ | 3537 | ෆෑ | 0DD1 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA AEDA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆි | 3538 | ෆි | 0DD2 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KETTI IS-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆී | 3539 | ෆී | 0DD3 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA IS-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆු | 3540 | ෆු | 0DD4 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KETTI PAA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆූ | 3542 | ෆූ | 0DD6 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA PAA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෘ | 3544 | ෆෘ | 0DD8 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN GAETTA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෙ | 3545 | ෆෙ | 0DD9 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆේ | 3546 | ෆේ | 0DDA | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA KOMBUVA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෛ | 3547 | ෆෛ | 0DDB | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KOMBU DEKA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆො | 3548 | ෆො | 0DDC | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA HAA AELA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෝ | 3549 | ෆෝ | 0DDD | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA HAA DIGA AELA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෞ | 3550 | ෆෞ | 0DDE | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA HAA GAYANUKITTA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෟ | 3551 | ෆෟ | 0DDF | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN GAYANUKITTA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
෦ | 3558 | ෦ | 0DE6 | SINHALA LITH DIGIT ZERO |
෧ | 3559 | ෧ | 0DE7 | SINHALA LITH DIGIT ONE |
෨ | 3560 | ෨ | 0DE8 | SINHALA LITH DIGIT TWO |
෩ | 3561 | ෩ | 0DE9 | SINHALA LITH DIGIT THREE |
෪ | 3562 | ෪ | 0DEA | SINHALA LITH DIGIT FOUR |
෫ | 3563 | ෫ | 0DEB | SINHALA LITH DIGIT FIVE |
෬ | 3564 | ෬ | 0DEC | SINHALA LITH DIGIT SIX |
෭ | 3565 | ෭ | 0DED | SINHALA LITH DIGIT SEVEN |
෮ | 3566 | ෮ | 0DEE | SINHALA LITH DIGIT EIGHT |
෯ | 3567 | ෯ | 0DEF | SINHALA LITH DIGIT NINE |
ෆෲ | 3570 | ෆෲ | 0DF2 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA GAETTA-PILLA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
ෆෳ | 3571 | ෆෳ | 0DF3 | SINHALA VOWEL SIGN DIGA GAYANUKITTA (combined with fayanna (ෆ)) |
෴ | 3572 | ෴ | 0DF4 | SINHALA PUNCTUATION KUNDDALIYA |
Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.
Created 4th October 1999 Last updated 28th October 2014