U+09AA "প" Bengali Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
প
U+09AA "প" Bengali Letter Pa is the twenty-ninth consonant in the Bengali abugida, representing the voiceless labial plosive sound /p/ when pronounced. It belongs to the Bengali script block, which is used for writing the Bengali, Assamese, and related languages primarily in South Asia. In the Bengali alphabet, this character can combine with vowel diacritics to form various syllables, and it also appears in the early position of the traditional letter ordering. Its visual shape consists of a curved horizontal line and a vertical stroke, similar to its Devanagari counterpart प but with distinct Bengali stylistic features.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Pa |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | প |
| HTML Hex Encoding | প |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09aa |