ළ is the Unicode character SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA LAYANNA, code point U+0DC5 (decimal 3525) in the Sinhala block, added in Unicode 3.0. In HTML write ළ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E0 B7 85.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+0DC5 |
| Decimal | 3525 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E0 B7 85 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 0DC5 |
| UTF-32 | 00000DC5 |
| HTML decimal | ළ |
| HTML hex | ළ |
| CSS | \DC5 |
| JavaScript | \u0DC5 |
| JSON | \u0DC5 |
| Python | \u0DC5 |
| Python by name | \N{SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA LAYANNA} |
| Java, C# | \u0DC5 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{DC5} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u0DC5 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E0%B7%85 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | SINHALA LETTER MUURDHAJA LAYANNA |
| Code point | U+0DC5 (decimal 3525) |
| Block | Sinhala (U+0D80–U+0DFF) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Sinhala |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 3.0 |
Nearby in Sinhala
- ය U+0DBA Sinhala Letter Yayanna
- ර U+0DBB Sinhala Letter Rayanna
- ල U+0DBD Sinhala Letter Dantaja Layanna
- ව U+0DC0 Sinhala Letter Vayanna
- ශ U+0DC1 Sinhala Letter Taaluja Sayanna
- ෂ U+0DC2 Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Sayanna
- ස U+0DC3 Sinhala Letter Dantaja Sayanna
- හ U+0DC4 Sinhala Letter Hayanna
- ෆ U+0DC6 Sinhala Letter Fayanna
- U+0DCA Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
- U+0DCF Sinhala Vowel Sign Aela-Pilla
- U+0DD0 Sinhala Vowel Sign Ketti Aeda-Pilla
- U+0DD1 Sinhala Vowel Sign Diga Aeda-Pilla
- U+0DD2 Sinhala Vowel Sign Ketti Is-Pilla
- U+0DD3 Sinhala Vowel Sign Diga Is-Pilla
- U+0DD4 Sinhala Vowel Sign Ketti Paa-Pilla
All 91 characters: Sinhala.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ළ?
- Use ළ (decimal) or ළ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0DC5?
- E0 B7 85 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E0%B7%85.
- How do I write U+0DC5 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u0DC5. Python: \u0DC5.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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