Unicode Character "උ" (U+0D8B)

The character උ (Sinhala Letter Uyanna) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0D8B. 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 උ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Sinhala Letter Uyanna
Unicode Codepoint U+0D8B
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+0D8B Conversion

HTML (decimal) උ
HTML (hex) උ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%B6%8B
CSS \000D8B
JavaScript, JSON \u0D8B
C, C++, Java \u0D8B
Python \u0D8B
Rust \u{0D8B}
Ruby \u0D8B

How to type "උ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB6 0x8B
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0D8B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000D8B

References