Sinhala Unicode System

**arumaya** Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:01 am

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

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 fayanna (ෆ))
ෆෝ 3549 ෆෝ 0DDD SIN VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA HAA DIGA AELA-PILLA (combined fayanna (ෆ))
ෆෞ 3550 ෆෞ 0DDE SIN VOWEL SIGN KOMBUVA HAA GAYANUKITTA (combined fayanna (ෆ))
ෆෟ 3551 ෆෟ 0DDF SINHALA VOWEL SIGN GAYANUKITTA (combined with fayanna (ෆ))
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))
ෆ෴ 3572 ෆ෴ 0DF4 SINHALA PUNCTUATION KUNDDALIYA