U+09AC "ব" Bengali Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ব
U+09AC "ব" Bengali Letter Ba is the 37th consonant in the Bengali abugida, representing the bilabial plosive sound /b/ and serving as a fundamental element of the Bengali, Assamese, and related scripts used in eastern South Asia. It appears as a distinct glyph with a curved, open top and a horizontal bar, functioning both as an independent letter and as a conjunct component in complex ligatures. In addition to its phonetic role in words like "বাংলা" (Bangla, meaning Bengali language), it holds cultural significance as the first letter of many auspicious terms and is widely used in writing, printing, and digital text for over 300 million speakers across Bangladesh and India.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09AC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ba |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ব |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ব |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09ac |