U+099C "জ" Bengali Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+099C "জ" Bengali Letter Ja is a consonant in the Bengali script representing the voiced palatal plosive sound /d͡ʒ/, commonly transliterated as "ja." It is part of the Bengali alphabet used in the Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri languages, among others, and is derived from the Brahmi script through the Gupta and Siddham writing systems. In Bengali, it appears in words such as "জল" (jal, meaning water) and "জানোয়ার" (janowar, meaning animal), and it plays a role in writing both native vocabulary and loanwords.
General Properties
Code Point
U+099C
Name
Bengali Letter Ja
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
জ
HTML Hex Encoding
জ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA6 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x099C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000099C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u099c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bengali