U+09AD "ভ" Bengali Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ভ
U+09AD "ভ" Bengali Letter Bha is the twenty-seventh consonant in the Bengali script and represents the aspirated voiced bilabial plosive sound /bʱ/, commonly used in the Bengali and Assamese languages. This character is a key component in words like "ভাল" (bhala, meaning good) and is part of the Indic block of Unicode, where it follows the structural pattern of other Bengali consonants with a descending curved stroke on the left. As a distinct grapheme, it contributes to the rich phonetic inventory of the Bengali writing system, distinguishing between aspirated and unaspirated sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Bha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ভ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ভ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09ad |