Sinhala (Unicode block)

See also: Sinhala Archaic Numbers (Unicode block)
Sinhala
RangeU+0D80..U+0DFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSinhala
Major alphabetsSinhala
Pali
Sanskrit
Assigned91 code points
Unused37 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)80 (+80)
7.0 (2014)90 (+10)
13.0 (2020)91 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.

Block

Sinhala[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+0D8x ඁ ං ඃ අ ආ ඇ ඈ ඉ ඊ උ ඌ ඍ ඎ ඏ
U+0D9x ඐ එ ඒ ඓ ඔ ඕ ඖ ක ඛ ග ඝ ඞ ඟ
U+0DAx ච ඡ ජ ඣ ඤ ඥ ඦ ට ඨ ඩ ඪ ණ ඬ ත ථ ද
U+0DBx ධ න ඳ ප ඵ බ භ ම ඹ ය ර ල
U+0DCx ව ශ ෂ ස හ ළ ෆ ් ා
U+0DDx ැ ෑ ි ී ු ූ ෘ ෙ ේ ෛ ො ෝ ෞ ෟ
U+0DEx ෦ ෧ ෨ ෩ ෪ ෫ ෬ ෭ ෮ ෯
U+0DFx ෲ ෳ ෴
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sinhala block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+0D82..0D83, 0D85..0D96, 0D9A..0DB1, 0DB3..0DBB, 0DBD, 0DC0..0DC6, 0DCA, 0DCF..0DD4, 0DD6, 0DD8..0DDF, 0DF2..0DF4 80 L2/97-019 N1480 Ginige, S. L. (1996-11-15), Request to add Sinhalese to 10646 based on recent Sinhalese Standard (SLS 1134-1996)
L2/97-019.1 Sri Lanka standard Sinhala character code for information interchange
L2/97-018 N1473R Everson, Michael (1997-03-01), Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)
N1532 Ross, Hugh McGregor (1997-03-07), Comment on Sri Lanka Proposal for Sinhala Script
L2/97-030 N1503 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "8.6", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24
L2/97-145 N1589 Everson, Michael (1997-06-13), Mapping of Sinhala between ISO/IEC 10646 and SLS 1134
N1585 Disanayaka, J. B. (1997-06-25), Towards Standard Sinhala Character Code
N1584 Adams, Glenn (1997-06-30), Feedback on Sinhala Script Proposals (N1480, N 1473R, etc.)
L2/97-158 N1613 Report of ad-hoc group on Sinhala encoding, 1997-07-02
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.7", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-319 N1896 Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 21, AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala, 1998-10-22
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/10-164 Dias, Gihan (2010-05-05), Sinhala Named Sequences
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C32", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Accept three Sinhala named sequences as provisional in Unicode 6.0...
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.09 (Named USIs for Sinhala)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
7.0 U+0DE6..0DEF 10 L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.28", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/08-007 Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range, 2008-01-07
L2/08-068 Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), Archaic Sinhala Numerals
L2/08-105 Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS, 2008-02-05
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Archaic Sinhala Numerals", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/10-165 Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals
L2/10-312 Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers
L2/10-337 N3888 Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19
N3888-A Senaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003
N3888-B Unicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers
L2/10-433 Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Sinhala Numerals", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
13.0 U+0D81 1 L2/18-060 N4964 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-02-05), Proposal to encode the CANDRABINDU for Sinhala
L2/18-079 Anderson, Deborah (2018-03-21), Feedback on Sinhala candrabindu (L2/18-060)
L2/18-168 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "10. Sinhala", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.4.1", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "B.1.3.1.1.1", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
L2/20-052 Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-15), Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters
L2/20-015R Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.4 Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.