U+09A5 "থ" Bengali Letter Tha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
থ
U+09A5 "থ" Bengali Letter Tha is a consonant in the Bengali script used primarily for writing the Bengali language of Bangladesh and eastern India, as well as Assamese and other related languages. It represents the aspirated voiceless dental plosive sound /t̪ʰ/, similar to the "th" in the English word "thorn" but articulated with the tongue against the teeth. In the Bengali alphabet, it is the 17th consonant and belongs to the set of aspirated consonants, which are pronounced with a noticeable burst of air. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Bengali block, enabling its digital representation across various platforms and systems for text processing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09A5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Tha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | থ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | থ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09a5 |