U+09AF "য" Bengali Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+09AF "য" Bengali Letter Ya is the thirty eighth letter of the Bengali abugida, representing the voiced palatal approximant sound /j/ as in the English word "yes". This character is used primarily in the Bengali and Assamese languages to write words such as যশোর (Jashore), a city in Bangladesh, and যাত্রা (jatra), meaning journey or procession. It functions as a consonant in the script, where it can also take on a diacritical form when combined with other consonants in conjunct characters. In the Unicode standard, it is part of the Bengali block and is typically displayed with a curved stroke that extends to the right, distinguishing it from similar letters in other South Asian scripts.