U+09E3 "ৣ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09E3 "ৣ" Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a combining diacritic mark used in the Bengali script to represent a specific vowel sound. This character is an obsolete or rare vowel sign that historically denoted a vocalic double-l sound, similar to the syllabic "ll" found in some ancient Indo-Aryan languages like Vedic Sanskrit. It is written as a modifier attached to a consonant letter, appearing below the base character to modify its pronunciation. In modern Bengali, this vowel sign is no longer in common use, having been largely supplanted by other vowel notations, but it remains defined in the Unicode standard for historical and scholarly text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09E3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09e3 |