Source: Noto Sans Sinhala

U+0DD8 Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla

U+0DD8 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 Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Sinhala script. The character is also known as sinhala vowel sign vocalic r.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0DD8 prohibits a line break before it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is also related to the Grantha script.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	3544
UTF-8	E0 B7 98
UTF-16	0D D8
UTF-32	00 00 0D D8
URL-Quoted	%E0%B7%98
HTML hex reference	ෘ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	à·˜
alias	sinhala vowel sign vocalic r
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 32 CA 38

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na)	SINHALA VOWEL SIGN GAETTA-PILLA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Sinhala
General Category (gc)	Spacing Mark
Script (sc)	Sinhala
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Case Folding (cf)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
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)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Spacing Mark
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)	Right
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Vowel_Dependent
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
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)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
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)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Sinhala Vowel Sign Gaetta-Pilla
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R