U+099B "ছ" Bengali Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+099B "ছ" Bengali Letter Cha is a consonant in the Bengali script, representing an aspirated voiceless palatal stop sound, equivalent to the "ch" in the English word "cheese" but with a stronger breath of air. It is the eighteenth letter of the Bengali alphabet, used primarily in the Bengali language as well as in Assamese and other related languages that employ the script. Visually, it is characterized by a distinctive curved form with a small horizontal line on top, and it is a fundamental component in writing words, often appearing in combinations with vowel diacritics or as part of conjunct consonant clusters.

General Properties

Code Point U+099B
Version Added 1.1
Name Bengali Letter Cha
Block Bengali
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ছ
HTML Hex Encoding ছ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x099B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000099B
C/C++/Java Escape \u099b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bengali
Script Extensions Bengali
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter