U+099B "ছ" Bengali Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ছ
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 |