Sinhala (Unicode block)

Sinhala
Sinhala
Range	U+0D80..U+0DFF; (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Sinhala
Major alphabets	Sinhala; Pali; Sanskrit
Assigned	91 code points
Unused	37 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:

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
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

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

[final-3] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[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.

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