U+0982 "ং" Bengali Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ং
U+0982 "ং" Bengali Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Bengali script, as well as in related Assamese and other Brahmic scripts, to indicate a homorganic nasal sound or nasalization at the end of a syllable. When attached to a consonant or vowel, it represents a nasal consonant that absorbs the place of articulation of the following sound, often functioning as a substitute for the inherent vowel in a consonant cluster or at the end of a word. This character is visually distinctive as a small raised dot or circle above the baseline of the text and plays a critical role in the orthography of languages like Bengali, where it appears in common words such as "বাংলা" (Bangla) to denote the nasal sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0982 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ং |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ং |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0982 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000982 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0982 |