Unicode Character "අ" (U+0D85)

The character අ (Sinhala Letter Ayanna) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0D85. It is encoded in the Sinhala block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (September, 1999). It is HTML encoded as අ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Sinhala Letter Ayanna
Unicode Codepoint U+0D85
Unicode Version 3.0 (September, 1999)
Block Sinhala
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Sinhala
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0D85 Conversion

HTML (decimal) අ
HTML (hex) අ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%B6%85
CSS \000D85
JavaScript, JSON \u0D85
C, C++, Java \u0D85
Python \u0D85
Rust \u{0D85}
Ruby \u0D85

How to type "අ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 D 8 5. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 D 8 5. Release Alt.

Preview

  • අ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • අ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • අ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB6 0x85
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0D85
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000D85

References