Unicode Character "බ" (U+0DB6)

The character බ (Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Bayanna) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0DB6. 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 බ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Bayanna
Unicode Codepoint U+0DB6
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+0DB6 Conversion

HTML (decimal) බ
HTML (hex) බ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%B6%B6
CSS \000DB6
JavaScript, JSON \u0DB6
C, C++, Java \u0DB6
Python \u0DB6
Rust \u{0DB6}
Ruby \u0DB6

How to type "බ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 D B 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 D B 6. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB6 0xB6
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0DB6
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000DB6

References