U+098C "ঌ" Bengali Letter Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ঌ
U+098C "ঌ" Bengali Letter Vocalic L is a vowel in the Bengali script representing the vocalicL sound, a phonetic element that originates from Sanskrit but is now largely archaic in modern Bengali. It appears as a short vowel in classical and historical texts, and its phonetic value is a syllabicL (approximating the sound of "l" as a vowel), comparable to the Sanskrit ṛ vowel. In contemporary usage, this character is rarely found in everyday Bengali writing, and its pronunciation is often merged with other vowels like "i" or "li" in practice, though it remains an important part of the Unicode standard for accurate representation of ancient and liturgical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+098C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Vocalic L |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ঌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ঌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x098C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000098C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u098c |