U+099C "জ" Bengali Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
জ
U+099C "জ" Bengali Letter Ja is a consonant in the Bengali script representing the voiced palatal plosive sound /d͡ʒ/, commonly transliterated as "ja." It is part of the Bengali alphabet used in the Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri languages, among others, and is derived from the Brahmi script through the Gupta and Siddham writing systems. In Bengali, it appears in words such as "জল" (jal, meaning water) and "জানোয়ার" (janowar, meaning animal), and it plays a role in writing both native vocabulary and loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+099C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ja |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | জ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | জ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x099C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000099C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u099c |