U+09E2 "ৢ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09E2 "ৢ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritical mark used in the Bengali script to represent a vocalic 'L' sound, a rare vowel typically found in Sanskrit loanwords and ancient linguistic contexts rather than modern Bengali usage. It appears as a small sign attached below a consonant letter, modifying its pronunciation to include a syllabic 'l' sound, similar to the vowel inherent in the Sanskrit vocalic 'L'. This character is part of the Bengali block in Unicode and is rarely encountered in contemporary digital text, primarily serving scholarly or historical transcription purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09e2 |