U+09E8 "২" Bengali Digit Two Unicode Character

U+09E8 "২" Bengali Digit Two is the standard encoded representation for the numeral two in the Bengali script, used primarily in the Bengali, Assamese, and other related languages of the Indian subcontinent. It is part of the Bengali block of Unicode and is employed in written text to denote the numerical value two, following a decimal system similar to that of other South Asian scripts. This character is visually distinct from the Latin digit 2, featuring a rounded, flowing design typical of Bengali typography, and it is used in everything from mathematics and dates to literature and everyday notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+09E8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Bengali Digit Two
Block	Bengali
General Category	Decimal Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	২
HTML Hex Encoding	২
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE0 0xA7 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x09E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000009E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u09e8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Decimal
Numeric Value	2
Line Break	Numeric
Script	Bengali
Script Extensions	Bengali Chakma Syloti Nagri
Indic Syllabic Category	Number
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Numeric
Sentence Break	Numeric