U+09D7 "ৗ" Bengali Au Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09D7 "ৗ" Bengali Au Length Mark is a combining mark used in the Bengali script to indicate a specific vowel length, specifically the inherent long vowel sound "au" or its lengthened counterpart, functioning as a diacritic that attaches to the preceding consonant or vowel sign to modify pronunciation. It is part of the Bengali block within Unicode and serves a distinct phonetic role in the orthography of languages like Bengali and Assamese, helping to differentiate between short and long vowel sounds in written text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09D7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Au Length Mark |
| 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 0xA7 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09D7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009D7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09d7 |