U+09DF "য়" Bengali Letter Yya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
য়
U+09DF "য়" Bengali Letter Yya is a distinctive consonant in the Bengali script that represents the voiced palatal approximant sound, similar to the English "y" in "yes." It is typically used in Bengali, Assamese, and related languages to denote the semivowel sound, often appearing in the middle or end of words rather than at the beginning. This character is derived from the historical combination of two diacritical marks and is considered an allograph or variant of the standard Bengali letter "Ya" (য), with its usage varying based on phonetic context and orthographic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09DF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Yya |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "য" U+09AF Bengali Letter Ya "়" U+09BC Bengali Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | য় |
| HTML Hex Encoding | য় |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09df |