U+0DCA SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA: ◌් – Unicode

U+0DCA was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. In text U+0DCA behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.

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

halanta or explicit virāma, a diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including the Devanagari and Eastern Nagari scripts, or

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 don't 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-Escape	්
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âà·
alias	virama

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name	SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Sinhala
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Script	Sinhala
Bidirectional Category	Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class	Virama
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Lowercase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Uppercase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Titlecase Mapping	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Case Folding	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✔
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✔
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Grapheme Base	✘
Grapheme Extend	✔
Grapheme Link	✔
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	Top
Indic Syllabic Category	Virama
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Maybe
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
NFKC Quick Check	Maybe
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Extend
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Extend
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Sinhala Sign Al-Lakuna
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R