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   September 2024
  - Unicode 15.0 update.




SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA character


Name:
SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA
Hex Number:
U+0DCA
Decimal Number:
3530
HTML Entity (Dec):
්
HTML Entity (Hex):
්
Category:
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
Bidi Class:
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
Mirrored:
N
Combining Class:
9
Unicode Block:
Sinhala
Plane:
0
Plane Code:
BMP
Plane Description:
Basic Multilingual Plane
Plane Range:
0000-FFFF
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SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SINHALA SIGN AL-LAKUNA is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

This character belongs to the Sinhala block. 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..





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