Sinhala Letter Ayanna

U+0D85
BMP Unicode 3.0
Character
Decimal අ
Hex අ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0D85
Decimal
3461
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Block
Sinhala
Script
Sinhala
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Sinhala Letter Ayanna.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
අ
HTML Hex
අ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E0 B6 85
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
0D 85
UTF-32 Hex
00000D85
CSS Escape
\D85
JavaScript Escape
\u0D85
Python Escape
\u0D85
URL Encoded
%E0%B6%85
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