U+09F0 "ৰ" Bengali Letter Ra with Middle Diagonal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09F0 "ৰ" Bengali Letter Ra with Middle Diagonal is a variant of the Bengali letter "Ra" used primarily in the Assamese language, where it represents the alveolar trill or flap sound, as opposed to the standard Bengali retroflex "Ra" (র). Its distinctive visual feature is a diagonal stroke that cuts through the middle of the letter, distinguishing it from the more common form. This character is part of the Bengali script block in Unicode and is essential for correctly writing Assamese and certain other languages of the region that employ this specific phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09F0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ra with Middle Diagonal |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09f0 |