U+098F "এ" Bengali Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+098F "এ" Bengali Letter E is a fundamental vowel in the Bengali abugida, representing the sound often transcribed as "e" as in the English word "end." It is the seventh letter of the Bengali alphabet and serves both as an independent character at the beginning of syllables and as a vowel sign attached to a consonant. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Bengali block, enabling its digital representation and exchange across modern computing systems. In the Bengali script, it plays a crucial role in forming words and is essential for writing the Bengali language, which is spoken predominantly in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+098F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter E |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | এ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | এ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x098F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000098F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u098f |