U+09B6 "শ" Bengali Letter Sha Unicode Character

U+09B6 "শ" Bengali Letter Sha is the thirty-fourth consonant in the Bengali abugida, representing the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant sound /ʃ/, similar to the "sh" in the English word "ship." This character is used primarily in the Bengali script for writing the Bengali and Assamese languages, where it appears in common words such as শব্দ (shobdo, meaning "sound" or "word") and শহর (shohor, meaning "city"). Its graphical form consists of a curved upper stroke and a lower loop, and it is distinct from the similar Unicode characters for the dental sibilant "স" and the retroflex sibilant "ষ," which represent different phonetic values in the languages that utilize the script.