U+09CD "্" Bengali Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09CD "্" Bengali Sign Virama is a combining mark used in the Bengali script and related South Asian abugidas to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant, creating a conjunct or a dead consonant. Positioned beneath or after a consonant letter, it functions as a diacritical killer stroke, indicating that the consonant should be pronounced without a following vowel sound. This virama is essential for forming complex glyph clusters in words like "ক্ট" (kṭa), where it links consonants in a visually compact manner, and it plays a critical role in accurately representing the phonology and typography of Bengali and Assamese languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09CD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Sign Virama |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ্ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ্ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09cd |