U+09FB "৻" Bengali Ganda Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+09FB "৻" Bengali Ganda Mark is a monetary symbol used primarily in the Bengali script as part of the greater Bengali currency system, historically representing a specific denomination or unit of currency. It appears as a distinct sign within the Bengali block of Unicode, designed to facilitate the digital representation of traditional financial notations in texts and documents. While not as commonly encountered as the basic rupee sign, the Ganda Mark serves as a specialized character for encoding historical or regional monetary values, ensuring that writers and scholars can accurately reproduce older or local currency references in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09FB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Bengali Ganda Mark |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ৻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ৻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09fb |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Prefix Numeric |
| Script | Bengali |
| Script Extensions | Bengali |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |