U+09C4 "ৄ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09C4 "ৄ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a combining diacritic mark used in the Bengali script to represent a specific vowel sound. This character is an extended vocalic R, often employed in transliterating Sanskrit terms into Bengali, where it modifies the preceding consonant to include a lengthened or retroflex vocalic "r" sound, similar to the Sanskrit ऋ (vocalic R) but with a longer duration. As a vowel sign, it does not appear independently but attaches to a consonant base, and its usage is primarily historical or in scholarly contexts rather than in common modern Bengali writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09C4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09c4 |