U+09AB "ফ" Bengali Letter Pha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ফ
U+09AB "ফ" Bengali Letter Pha is the twenty third consonant in the Bengali abugida and represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop sound /pʰ/, similar to the 'p' sound in the English word 'pot' but with a stronger puff of air. This character is primarily used in the Bengali and Assamese languages, where it serves as an essential component in the writing systems for accurately conveying words that contain this specific phonetic sound. When combined with vowel diacritics, the base form of ফ transforms into various complex ligatures, and its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Pha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ফ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ফ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09ab |