U+09B9 "হ" Bengali Letter Ha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bengali
Script Extensions Bengali
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter