U+09A6 "দ" Bengali Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
দ
U+09A6 "দ" Bengali Letter Da is a consonant in the Bengali script, representing the voiced dental plosive sound /d̪/ as heard in the English word "the" when pronounced with a soft tongue tip against the teeth. This character is part of the Bengali alphabet, which is used to write the Bengali language primarily spoken in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. It appears in a variety of common words, such as "দাদা" meaning elder brother or grandfather, and it contributes to the rich phonetic and typographic tradition of the script, serving as a fundamental component in both literary and everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Da |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | দ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | দ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09a6 |