U+09BF "ি" Bengali Vowel Sign I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09BF "ি" Bengali Vowel Sign I is a combining diacritical mark used in the Bengali script to represent the independent vowel sound /i/ when attached to a consonant letter. In writing, it appears as a small, curled sign placed to the left of a consonant glyph, altering the inherent vowel of that consonant from /ɔ/ or /o/ to /i/. As a vowel sign, it is distinguished from the independent form of the vowel I (ই, U+0987) and is essential for correctly spelling a vast number of words in Bengali, the primary language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Vowel Sign I |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ি |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ি |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09bf |