U+09A7 "ধ" Bengali Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ধ
U+09A7 "ধ" Bengali Letter Dha is a consonant used in the Bengali script, representing the voiced aspirated dental stop sound /d̪ʱ/ in the Bengali, Assamese, and related languages. It is part of the Bengali Unicode block, occupying the specific code point assigned to this letter, which is derived from the ancient Brahmi script through the Gupta and Siddham alphabets. Visually, it features a distinctive curved shape with a horizontal top line, typical of Bengali script orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Dha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ধ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ধ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09a7 |