U+099A "চ" Bengali Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
চ
U+099A "চ" Bengali Letter Ca is the third consonant and the first letter of the palatal series in the Bengali alphabet, representing the voiceless palatal plosive sound /tʃɔ/ when pronounced with the inherent vowel "ɔ". It is derived from the Brahmi script and corresponds to the Devanagari letter च (ca). In the Bengali writing system, this letter is used as a fundamental building block for numerous words in Bengali and Assamese languages, and it can be modified with diacritic vowel signs to produce different syllables. The character occupies code point U+099A in the Unicode Standard, where it resides within the Bengali block of the Basic Multilingual Plane.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+099A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ca |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | চ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | চ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x099A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000099A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u099a |