U+09F1 "ৱ" Bengali Letter Ra with Lower Diagonal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09F1 "ৱ" Bengali Letter Ra with Lower Diagonal is a variant of the Bengali letter Ra, primarily used in the Assamese language and sometimes in other eastern Indic scripts, where it represents a distinct retroflex or rhotic sound that differs from the standard Bengali Ra. This character features a unique diagonal stroke below the main letterform, which visually distinguishes it from the common Bengali letter Ra and indicates its specific phonetic role. It belongs to the Bengali Unicode block and is encoded for digital text representation in languages such as Assamese, where it is essential for accurately writing words that require this particular consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09F1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Ra with Lower Diagonal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Bengali Letter Va with Lower Diagonal |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09f1 |