U+098A "ঊ" Bengali Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ঊ
U+098A "ঊ" Bengali Letter Uu is a distinct vowel in the Bengali script, specifically representing the long vowel sound /uː/ as in the English word "boot". It is typically transliterated as "Uu" or "ū" and holds the eighth position in the Bengali abugida's vowel order, following the short vowel U (উ). This character is essential in writing correct Bengali orthography for words that require a prolonged "oo" sound, and it appears in both classical literary texts and modern everyday usage across the Bengali-speaking regions of Bangladesh and India.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+098A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Uu |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ঊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ঊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x098A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000098A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u098a |