U+09AF "য" Bengali Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
য
U+09AF "য" Bengali Letter Ya is the thirty eighth letter of the Bengali abugida, representing the voiced palatal approximant sound /j/ as in the English word "yes". This character is used primarily in the Bengali and Assamese languages to write words such as যশোর (Jashore), a city in Bangladesh, and যাত্রা (jatra), meaning journey or procession. It functions as a consonant in the script, where it can also take on a diacritical form when combined with other consonants in conjunct characters. In the Unicode standard, it is part of the Bengali block and is typically displayed with a curved stroke that extends to the right, distinguishing it from similar letters in other South Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09AF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ya |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | য |
| HTML Hex Encoding | য |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09af |