U+09E0 "ৠ" Bengali Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09E0 "ৠ" Bengali Letter Vocalic Rr is a distinct vowel character used in the Bengali script to represent a long retroflex vocalic 'r' sound, which is a rare and historical phoneme typically found in Sanskrit loanwords and ancient Vedic transcriptions. Unlike more common Bengali vowels, this character is not used in modern Bengali language or everyday writing, making it largely obsolete outside of specialized scholarly, liturgical, or linguistic contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately render classical Sanskrit and related texts where this specific vowel is required for correct pronunciation and script representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09E0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09e0 |