U+0986 "আ" Bengali Letter Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
আ
U+0986 "আ" Bengali Letter Aa is the first vowel of the Bengali script, representing the open back vowel sound /a/ in the Bengali language. It is derived from the Brahmi script and serves as a foundational character in the Bengali alphabet, often used to begin words or as an independent vowel form in contrast to its diacritic version. This character is integral to writing Bengali, Assamese, and other languages that use the Bengali script, appearing frequently in literature, signage, and digital text across South Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0986 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Aa |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | আ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | আ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0986 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000986 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0986 |