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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Sinhala[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+0D8x</td><td></td><td>ඁ</td><td>ං</td><td>ඃ</td><td></td><td>අ</td><td>ආ</td><td>ඇ</td><td>ඈ</td><td>ඉ</td><td>ඊ</td><td>උ</td><td>ඌ</td><td>ඍ</td><td>ඎ</td><td>ඏ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0D9x</td><td>ඐ</td><td>එ</td><td>ඒ</td><td>ඓ</td><td>ඔ</td><td>ඕ</td><td>ඖ</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>ක</td><td>ඛ</td><td>ග</td><td>ඝ</td><td>ඞ</td><td>ඟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0DAx</td><td>ච</td><td>ඡ</td><td>ජ</td><td>ඣ</td><td>ඤ</td><td>ඥ</td><td>ඦ</td><td>ට</td><td>ඨ</td><td>ඩ</td><td>ඪ</td><td>ණ</td><td>ඬ</td><td>ත</td><td>ථ</td><td>ද</td></tr><tr><td>U+0DBx</td><td>ධ</td><td>න</td><td></td><td>ඳ</td><td>ප</td><td>ඵ</td><td>බ</td><td>භ</td><td>ම</td><td>ඹ</td><td>ය</td><td>ර</td><td></td><td>ල</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+0DCx</td><td>ව</td><td>ශ</td><td>ෂ</td><td>ස</td><td>හ</td><td>ළ</td><td>ෆ</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>්</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>ා</td></tr><tr><td>U+0DDx</td><td>ැ</td><td>ෑ</td><td>ි</td><td>ී</td><td>ු</td><td></td><td>ූ</td><td></td><td>ෘ</td><td>ෙ</td><td>ේ</td><td>ෛ</td><td>ො</td><td>ෝ</td><td>ෞ</td><td>ෟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0DEx</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>෦</td><td>෧</td><td>෨</td><td>෩</td><td>෪</td><td>෫</td><td>෬</td><td>෭</td><td>෮</td><td>෯</td></tr><tr><td>U+0DFx</td><td></td><td></td><td>ෲ</td><td>ෳ</td><td>෴</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sinhala block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="15">3.0</td><td rowspan="15">U+0D82..0D83, 0D85..0D96, 0D9A..0DB1, 0DB3..0DBB, 0DBD, 0DC0..0DC6, 0DCA, 0DCF..0DD4, 0DD6, 0DD8..0DDF, 0DF2..0DF4</td><td rowspan="15">80</td><td>L2/97-019</td><td>N1480</td><td>Ginige, S. L. (1996-11-15), <i>Request to add Sinhalese to 10646 based on recent Sinhalese Standard (SLS 1134-1996)</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-019.1</td><td></td><td><i>Sri Lanka standard Sinhala character code for information interchange</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-018</td><td><a href="https://www.evertype.com/standards/si/si.html">N1473R</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Michael_Everson/8Se2cLdz">Everson, Michael</a> (1997-03-01), <i>Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1532</td><td><a href="/facts/Hugh_McGregor_Ross/6QcfUklh">Ross, Hugh McGregor</a> (1997-03-07), <i>Comment on Sri Lanka Proposal for Sinhala Script</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-030</td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1503.pdf">N1503 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1503.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "8.6", <i>Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-145</td><td>N1589</td><td>Everson, Michael (1997-06-13), <i>Mapping of Sinhala between ISO/IEC 10646 and SLS 1134</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1585</td><td><a href="/facts/J._B._Disanayake/V0G1Kv2y">Disanayaka, J. B.</a> (1997-06-25), <i>Towards Standard Sinhala Character Code</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>N1584</td><td>Adams, Glenn (1997-06-30), <i>Feedback on Sinhala Script Proposals (N1480, N 1473R, etc.)</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-158</td><td>N1613</td><td><i>Report of ad-hoc group on Sinhala encoding</i>, 1997-07-02</td></tr><tr><td>L2/97-288</td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1603.doc">N1603</a></td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.7", <i>Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/02n3190.pdf">L2/98-319</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1896_02n3190_fpdam21_sinhala.pdf">N1896</a></td><td><i>Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 21, AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala</i>, 1998-10-22</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/n1903.rtf">L2/99-010</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.pdf">N1903 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.htm">html</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903w97.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), <i>Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10164-sinhala-named-seq.pdf">L2/10-164</a></td><td></td><td>Dias, Gihan (2010-05-05), <i>Sinhala Named Sequences</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10108.htm">L2/10-108</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C32", <i>UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes</i>, Accept three Sinhala named sequences as provisional in Unicode 6.0...</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.pdf">N3903 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M57.09 (Named USIs for Sinhala)", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57</i>, 2011-03-31</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="13">7.0</td><td rowspan="13">U+0DE6..0DEF</td><td rowspan="13">10</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07268-n3253.pdf">L2/07-268</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.pdf">N3253 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.28", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08007-sinhala-num.pdf">L2/08-007</a></td><td></td><td><i>Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range</i>, 2008-01-07</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08068-archaic-sinhala.pdf">L2/08-068</a></td><td></td><td>Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), <i>Archaic Sinhala Numerals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08105-sinhala.pdf">L2/08-105</a></td><td></td><td><i>Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS</i>, 2008-02-05</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08003.htm">L2/08-003</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Archaic Sinhala Numerals", <i>UTC #114 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10165-sinhala.pdf">L2/10-165</a></td><td></td><td>Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), <i>Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10312-sinhala-num.pdf">L2/10-312</a></td><td></td><td>Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), <i>Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10337-n3888-sinhala.pdf">L2/10-337</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3888.pdf">N3888</a></td><td><i>Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS</i>, 2010-08-19</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3888-a.pdf">N3888-A</a></td><td>Senaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), <i>Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3888-b.pdf">N3888-B</a></td><td><i>Unicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10433-sinhala.pdf">L2/10-433</a></td><td></td><td>Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), <i>RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10416.htm">L2/10-416R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Sinhala Numerals", <i>UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.pdf">N3903 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M57.14", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57</i>, 2011-03-31</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="8">13.0</td><td rowspan="8">U+0D81</td><td rowspan="8">1</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18060-sinhala-candrabindu.pdf">L2/18-060</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4964-18060-sinhala-candrabindu.pdf">N4964</a></td><td>A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-02-05), <i>Proposal to encode the CANDRABINDU for Sinhala</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18079-sinhala-candrabindu.pdf">L2/18-079</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah (2018-03-21), <i>Feedback on Sinhala candrabindu (L2/18-060)</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18168-script-rec.pdf">L2/18-168</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "10. Sinhala", <i>Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18115.htm">L2/18-115</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.4.1", <i>UTC #155 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18183.htm">L2/18-183</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "B.1.3.1.1.1", <i>UTC #156 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.pdf">N5020 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.14", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20052-id-type-changes.txt">L2/20-052</a></td><td></td><td>Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-15), <i>Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20015.htm">L2/20-015R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.4 Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters", <i>Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>