U+09E1 "ৡ" Bengali Letter Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ৡ
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 |