U+09EC "৬" Bengali Digit Six Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09EC "৬" Bengali Digit Six is a numeric symbol used in the Bengali script, representing the number six in the traditional Bengali decimal numeral system, which is typically employed in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal for writing numbers alongside other South Asian scripts. Its visual form is a distinctive curved glyph, differing significantly from the Arabic numeral "6" found in Latin text, and it belongs to the Bengali block of Unicode, encoded for digital processing to support the language's diverse numeric and textual needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09EC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Digit Six |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09ec |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Decimal |
| Numeric Value | 6 |
| 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 |