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Glyph for U+0DCA
Source: Noto Sans Sinhala

U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna

U+0DCA was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block U+0D80 to U+0DFF Sinhala in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Sinhala script. The character is also known as virama.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0DCA prohibits a line break before it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter, commonly used as a generic term for a codepoint in Unicode, representing either

  1. halanta, hasanta or explicit virāma, a diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including the Devanagari and Bengali scripts, or
  2. saṃyuktākṣara (Sanskrit: संयुक्ताक्षर) or implicit virama, a conjunct consonant or ligature.

Unicode schemes of scripts writing Mainland Southeast Asia languages, such as that of Burmese script and of Tibetan script, generally do not group the two functions together.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 3530
UTF-8 E0 B7 8A
UTF-16 0D CA
UTF-32 00 00 0D CA
URL-Quoted %E0%B7%8A
HTML hex reference ්
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌්
alias virama

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na) SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Sinhala
General Category (gc) Nonspacing Mark
Script (sc) Sinhala
Bidirectional Category (bc) Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class (ccc) Virama
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✔
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✔
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Extend
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✘
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✔
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✔
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) Top
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Virama
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Maybe
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Maybe
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Extend
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Extend
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Transparent
Line Break (lb) Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R