The Bengali script is a North
Indian script closely related to
Devanagari. It is used to write the Bengali language primarily in
West Bengal state (
India) and in the nation of
Bangladesh. It is also used to write
Assamese in
Assam (India) and a number of other minority languages such as
Daphla,
Garo,
Hallam,
Khasi,
Manipuri,
Munda,
Naga,
Rian and
Santali in northeastern India.
The Bengali script makes use of two-part vowel signs. In these vowels, one-half of the vowel is placed on each side of a consonant letter or cluster -- for example, U+09CC ৌ Bengali vowel sign au. The vowel signs are coded in the position in the charts isomorphic with the corresponding vowel in Devanagari; hence,
U+09CC ৌ Bengali vowel sign au
is isomorphic with
U+094C ौ Devanagari vowel sign au. To provide compatibility with existing implementations of the scripts that use two-part vowel signs, Unicode explicitly encodes the right half of these vowel signs; for example
U+09D7 ৗ Bengali au length mark
represents the right-half glyph component of
U+09CC ৌ Bengali vowel sign au.
Unicode's
Bengali code block reserves the
128 code points from U+0980 to U+09FF, of which
91 are currently assigned.
Devanagari <-- Bengali --> Gurmukhi
Number of characters added in each version of the Unicode standard :
Unicode 1.1 : 89
Unicode 4.0 : 1
Unicode 4.1 : 1
Number of characters in each General Category :
Letter, Other Lo : 53
Mark, Non-Spacing Mn : 9
Mark, Spacing Combining Mc : 10
Number, Decimal Digit Nd : 10
Number, Other No : 6
Symbol, Currency Sc : 2
Symbol, Other So : 1
Number of characters in each Bidirectional Category :
Left To Right L : 80
European Number Terminator ET : 2
Non Spacing Mark NSM : 9
The columns below should be interpreted as :
- The Unicode code for the character
- The character in question
- The Unicode name for the character
- The Unicode General Category for the character
- The Unicode Bidirectional Category for the character
- The Unicode version when this character was added
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Bengali
Based on ISCII 1988
- U+0981 ঁ Bengali sign candrabindu Mn NSM 1.1
- U+0982 ং Bengali sign anusvara Mc L 1.1
- U+0983 ঃ Bengali sign visarga Mc L 1.1
Independent vowels
- U+0985 অ Bengali letter A Lo L 1.1
- U+0986 আ Bengali letter aa Lo L 1.1
- U+0987 ই Bengali letter I Lo L 1.1
- U+0988 ঈ Bengali letter ii Lo L 1.1
- U+0989 উ Bengali letter U Lo L 1.1
- U+098A ঊ Bengali letter uu Lo L 1.1
- U+098B ঋ Bengali letter vocalic r Lo L 1.1
- U+098C ঌ Bengali letter vocalic l Lo L 1.1
- U+098F এ Bengali letter E Lo L 1.1
- U+0990 ঐ Bengali letter ai Lo L 1.1
- U+0993 ও Bengali letter O Lo L 1.1
- U+0994 ঔ Bengali letter au Lo L 1.1
Consonants
- U+0995 ক Bengali letter ka Lo L 1.1
- U+0996 খ Bengali letter kha Lo L 1.1
- U+0997 গ Bengali letter ga Lo L 1.1
- U+0998 ঘ Bengali letter gha Lo L 1.1
- U+0999 ঙ Bengali letter nga Lo L 1.1
- U+099A চ Bengali letter ca Lo L 1.1
- U+099B ছ Bengali letter cha Lo L 1.1
- U+099C জ Bengali letter ja Lo L 1.1
- U+099D ঝ Bengali letter jha Lo L 1.1
- U+099E ঞ Bengali letter nya Lo L 1.1
- U+099F ট Bengali letter tta Lo L 1.1
- U+09A0 ঠ Bengali letter ttha Lo L 1.1
- U+09A1 ড Bengali letter dda Lo L 1.1
- U+09A2 ঢ Bengali letter ddha Lo L 1.1
- U+09A3 ণ Bengali letter nna Lo L 1.1
- U+09A4 ত Bengali letter ta Lo L 1.1
- U+09A5 থ Bengali letter tha Lo L 1.1
- U+09A6 দ Bengali letter da Lo L 1.1
- U+09A7 ধ Bengali letter dha Lo L 1.1
- U+09A8 ন Bengali letter na Lo L 1.1
- U+09AA প Bengali letter pa Lo L 1.1
- U+09AB ফ Bengali letter pha Lo L 1.1
- U+09AC ব Bengali letter ba Lo L 1.1
- aka Bengali va, wa
- U+09AD ভ Bengali letter bha Lo L 1.1
- U+09AE ম Bengali letter ma Lo L 1.1
- U+09AF য Bengali letter ya Lo L 1.1
- U+09B0 র Bengali letter ra Lo L 1.1
- U+09B2 ল Bengali letter la Lo L 1.1
- U+09B6 শ Bengali letter sha Lo L 1.1
- U+09B7 ষ Bengali letter ssa Lo L 1.1
- U+09B8 স Bengali letter sa Lo L 1.1
- U+09B9 হ Bengali letter ha Lo L 1.1
Various signs
- U+09BC ় Bengali sign nukta Mn NSM 1.1
- * for extending the alphabet to new letters
- U+09BD ঽ Bengali sign avagraha Lo L 4.0
Dependent vowel signs
- U+09BE া Bengali vowel sign aa Mc L 1.1
- U+09BF ি Bengali vowel sign i Mc L 1.1
- * stands to the left of the consonant
- U+09C0 ী Bengali vowel sign ii Mc L 1.1
- U+09C1 ু Bengali vowel sign u Mn NSM 1.1
- U+09C2 ূ Bengali vowel sign uu Mn NSM 1.1
- U+09C3 ৃ Bengali vowel sign vocalic r Mn NSM 1.1
- U+09C4 ৄ Bengali vowel sign vocalic rr Mn NSM 1.1
- U+09C7 ে Bengali vowel sign e Mc L 1.1
- * stands to the left of the consonant
- U+09C8 ৈ Bengali vowel sign ai Mc L 1.1
- * stands to the left of the consonant
Two-part dependent vowel signs
These vowel signs have glyph pieces which stand on both sides of the consonant; they follow the consonant in logical order, and should be handled as a unit for most processing.
- U+09CB ো Bengali vowel sign o Mc L 1.1
- U+09CC ৌ Bengali vowel sign au Mc L 1.1
Sign
- U+09CD ্ Bengali sign virama Mn NSM 1.1
- aka hasant (bengali term for halant)
Additional consonant
- U+09CE ৎ Bengali letter khanda ta Lo L 4.1
Sign
- U+09D7 ৗ Bengali au length mark Mc L 1.1
Additional consonants
- U+09DC ড় Bengali letter rra Lo L 1.1
- U+09DD ঢ় Bengali letter rha Lo L 1.1
- U+09DF য় Bengali letter yya Lo L 1.1
Additional vowels for Sanskrit
- U+09E0 ৠ Bengali letter vocalic rr Lo L 1.1
- U+09E1 ৡ Bengali letter vocalic ll Lo L 1.1
- U+09E2 ৢ Bengali vowel sign vocalic l Mn NSM 1.1
- U+09E3 ৣ Bengali vowel sign vocalic ll Mn NSM 1.1
Digits
- U+09E6 ০ Bengali digit zero Nd L 1.1
- U+09E7 ১ Bengali digit one Nd L 1.1
- U+09E8 ২ Bengali digit two Nd L 1.1
- U+09E9 ৩ Bengali digit three Nd L 1.1
- U+09EA ৪ Bengali digit four Nd L 1.1
- U+09EB ৫ Bengali digit five Nd L 1.1
- U+09EC ৬ Bengali digit six Nd L 1.1
- U+09ED ৭ Bengali digit seven Nd L 1.1
- U+09EE ৮ Bengali digit eight Nd L 1.1
- U+09EF ৯ Bengali digit nine Nd L 1.1
Bengali-specific additions
- U+09F0 ৰ Bengali letter ra with middle diagonal Lo L 1.1
- * Assamese
- U+09F1 ৱ Bengali letter ra with lower diagonal Lo L 1.1
- aka Bengali letter va with lower diagonal (1.0)
- * Assamese
- U+09F2 ৲ Bengali rupee mark Sc ET 1.1
- * Rupee
- U+09F3 ৳ Bengali rupee sign Sc ET 1.1
- U+09F4 ৴ Bengali currency numerator one No L 1.1
- * not in current usage
- U+09F5 ৵ Bengali currency numerator two No L 1.1
- * not in current usage
- U+09F6 ৶ Bengali currency numerator three No L 1.1
- * not in current usage
- U+09F7 ৷ Bengali currency numerator four No L 1.1
- U+09F8 ৸ Bengali currency numerator one less than the denominator No L 1.1
- U+09F9 ৹ Bengali currency denominator sixteen No L 1.1
- U+09FA ৺ Bengali isshar So L 1.1
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