U+09B0 "র" Bengali Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09B0 "র" Bengali Letter Ra is a consonant in the Bengali script representing the alveolar flap sound /r/. It is used in modern Standard Bengali and other languages written in the Bengali script, such as Assamese and Manipuri. As the 30th letter in the Bengali alphabet, it plays a fundamental role in writing words and occupies a distinct phonetic position separate from the retroflex Ṛa. Visually, it resembles a looped form distinguishable from similar letters like the Bengali consonant Va.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ra |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | র |
| HTML Hex Encoding | র |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09b0 |