U+09B9 "হ" Bengali Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
হ
U+09B9 "হ" Bengali Letter Ha is the thirty-fifth consonant in the Bengali script, representing the aspirated glottal fricative sound /ɦ/ and functioning as a fundamental letter in the Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri languages. As part of the Bengali block of Unicode, this character is used in writing a wide range of common words and syllables, often appearing in initial or medial positions within words, and it has a distinctive curved shape that connects to other letters in complex conjunct forms typical of the script. This character is encoded for digital text to accurately represent the phonological and orthographic traditions of the Bengali language and its related writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | হ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | হ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09b9 |