U+09C3 "ৃ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09C3 "ৃ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Bengali script to represent the vowel sound equivalent to the Sanskrit vocalic "r" (ṛ). This character is a dependent vowel sign, meaning it attaches to a consonant letter to modify its inherent vowel sound, and it appears as a distinct hook-like or curl-shaped mark placed above or on top of the consonant base. Historically derived from the Brahmi script, it is primarily used in transliterating Sanskrit loanwords into Bengali and indicates a short, syllabic "ri" or "r" sound, though its usage in modern Bengali is largely limited to scholarly, liturgical, or linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09C3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09c3 |