U+09E1 "ৡ" Bengali Letter Vocalic Ll Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+09E1 "ৡ" Bengali Letter Vocalic Ll is a rarely used vowel sign in the Bengali script representing a long vocalic l sound, which occurs primarily in Sanskrit loanwords and phonetic transcriptions. This character is distinct from the similar-looking Bengali letter for vocalic L (U+09DC) due to its length marker and specific diacritic shape, and it is part of the Unicode block for Bengali (U+0980 to U+09FF), ensuring digital support for historical and transliterated texts where this archaic phoneme appears.

General Properties

Code Point U+09E1
Version Added 1.1
Name Bengali Letter Vocalic Ll
Block Bengali
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ৡ
HTML Hex Encoding ৡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA7 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x09E1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000009E1
C/C++/Java Escape \u09e1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bengali
Script Extensions Bengali
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter