U+09CE "ৎ" Bengali Letter Khanda Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ৎ
U+09CE "ৎ" Bengali Letter Khanda Ta is a distinct letter in the Bengali script used primarily to represent the sound of a "t" without an inherent vowel, often serving as a final or conjunct form of the consonant "ta" and commonly appearing in loanwords, onomatopoeic expressions, or specific grammatical contexts such as the formation of certain verb participles. Its name "Khanda" translates to "broken" or "incomplete," reflecting its lack of a vowel stroke and its role as a non-initial or terminal grapheme that adds precision to the phonetic representation in Bengali, Assamese, and related languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09CE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Khanda Ta |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09ce |