U+092C "ब" Devanagari Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ब
U+092C "ब" Devanagari Letter Ba is a consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the voiced bilabial plosive sound /b/ in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit. It is derived from the ancient Brahmi script and serves as a fundamental building block for writing words, often combining with vowel signs to form syllables like "बा" (baa) or "बि" (bi). In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Devanagari block (U+0900 to U+097F) and is encoded as a single, self-contained character for digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+092C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ba |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ब |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ब |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x092C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000092C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u092c |