Bengali
Range: 0980–09FF
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0980Bengali

098
0230990$ং

ঢ ল $ূ

0982

09A209F1$ৢ ৲
09F209C2

09E2$ঃ ও ণ$ৃ$ৣ ৳

09A309C3

09E3

ঔ ত$ৄ

৴

09A409C409F40993

09B209F3

অ ক থ

৵

09A5

09F50995

০ ৶আ খ দ শ0996

09A6

09E609B609F6ই গ ধ ষ $ে $ৗ ১ ৷
0997

09A709B709C709D70998

09A8

09B8

09E709F7২ ৸ঈ ঘ ন স $ৈ

09E8

09C809F8

উ ঙ

হ

৩ ৹

0999

09B909E9099A

09EA09AAঋ ছ ফ$ো

৫

09AB

09CB

09EB

098B

099B

09F9৪ ৺ঊ চ প
098A

09FA

09FB

ঌ জ ব $় $ৌ ড় ৬ 
098C

099C

09AC

09BC

09CC

09DC

09EC

09FC

ঝ ভ ঽ $্ ঢ় ৭ ॰৮ ঽ$ঞ ম $া ৎ

DE

F

09F0

09E10989

C

09E0

ৡ ৱ

0988

B

ৠ ৰ

09C0

09C10987

A

09B0

09F

$ু

0986

909A0

09E

09A10985

809D

ড

0994

709C

0981

4

609B

$ঁ

0983

509A

ঀ ঐ ঠ র $ী
0980

1099

09FF

099D

09AD

09BD

09CD

099E

09AE

09BE

09CE

এ ট য $ি
098F

099F

09AF

09BF

09DD

09ED

09FD

09EE

09FE

য় ৯
09DF

09EF

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0980

Bengali

The Bengali script is also known as Bangla. In Assam, thepreferred name of the script is Asamiya or Assamese. TheAssamese language has also been written historically using
distinct regional scripts known as Kamrupi.
Various signs
0980 ঀ BENGALI ANJI
= siddham, siddhirastu• used at the beginning of texts as an invocation
0981 $ঁ BENGALI SIGN CANDRABINDU
0982 $ং BENGALI SIGN ANUSVARA
0983 $ঃ BENGALI SIGN VISARGA
Independent vowels
0985 অ BENGALI LETTER A
0986 আ BENGALI LETTER AA
0987 ই BENGALI LETTER I
0988 ঈ BENGALI LETTER II
0989 উ BENGALI LETTER U
098A ঊ BENGALI LETTER UU
098B ঋ BENGALI LETTER VOCALIC R
098C ঌ BENGALI LETTER VOCALIC L
098D " <reserved>
098E " <reserved>
098F এ BENGALI LETTER E
0990 ঐ BENGALI LETTER AI
0991 " <reserved>
0992 " <reserved>0993 ও BENGALI LETTER O
0994 ঔ BENGALI LETTER AUConsonants
0995 ক BENGALI LETTER KA
0996 খ BENGALI LETTER KHA
0997 গ BENGALI LETTER GA
0998 ঘ BENGALI LETTER GHA
0999 ঙ BENGALI LETTER NGA
099A চ BENGALI LETTER CA
099B ছ BENGALI LETTER CHA
099C জ BENGALI LETTER JA
099D ঝ BENGALI LETTER JHA
099E ঞ BENGALI LETTER NYA
099F ট BENGALI LETTER TTA
09A0 ঠ BENGALI LETTER TTHA
09A1 ড BENGALI LETTER DDA
09A2 ঢ BENGALI LETTER DDHA
09A3 ণ BENGALI LETTER NNA
09A4 ত BENGALI LETTER TA
09A5 থ BENGALI LETTER THA
09A6 দ BENGALI LETTER DA
09A7 ধ BENGALI LETTER DHA
09A8 ন BENGALI LETTER NA
09A9 " <reserved>
09AA প BENGALI LETTER PA
09AB ফ BENGALI LETTER PHA
09AC ব BENGALI LETTER BA= Bengali va, wa
09AD ভ BENGALI LETTER BHA
09AE ম BENGALI LETTER MA
09AF য BENGALI LETTER YA
09B0 র BENGALI LETTER RA
09B1 " <reserved>
09B2 ল BENGALI LETTER LA
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09E1

09B3 " <reserved>
09B4 " <reserved>
09B5 " <reserved>
09B6 শ BENGALI LETTER SHA
09B7 ষ BENGALI LETTER SSA
09B8 স BENGALI LETTER SA
09B9 হ BENGALI LETTER HA
Various signs
09BC $় BENGALI SIGN NUKTA• for extending the alphabet to new letters
09BD ঽ BENGALI SIGN AVAGRAHA
Dependent vowel signs
09BE $া BENGALI VOWEL SIGN AA
09BF $ি BENGALI VOWEL SIGN I• stands to the left of the consonant
09C0 $ী BENGALI VOWEL SIGN II
09C1 $ু BENGALI VOWEL SIGN U
09C2 $ূ BENGALI VOWEL SIGN UU
09C3 $ৃ BENGALI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
09C4 $ৄ BENGALI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR
09C5 " <reserved>
09C6 " <reserved>
09C7 $ে BENGALI VOWEL SIGN E• stands to the left of the consonant
09C8 $ৈ BENGALI VOWEL SIGN AI• stands to the left of the consonantTwo-part dependent vowel signs
These vowel signs have glyph pieces which stand on bothsides of the consonant; they follow the consonant in logicalorder, and should be handled as a unit for most processing.
09CB $ো BENGALI VOWEL SIGN O≡ 09C7 $ে 09BE $া
09CC $ৌ BENGALI VOWEL SIGN AU≡ 09C7 $ে 09D7 $ৗ
Virama09CD $্

BENGALI SIGN VIRAMA= hasant (Bengali term for halant)

Additional consonant
09CE ৎ BENGALI LETTER KHANDA TA• a dead consonant form of ta, without implicit
vowel, used in some sequences
Sign
09D7$ৗ BENGALI AU LENGTH MARK

Additional consonants
These three consonants with nuktas are listed inCompositionExclusions.txt. That means that they do notrecompose during normalization. The NFC form is the sameas the decomposed sequence.
09DC ড় BENGALI LETTER RRA≡ 09A1 ড 09BC $়
09DD ঢ় BENGALI LETTER RHA≡ 09A2 ঢ 09BC $়
09DE " <reserved>
09DF য় BENGALI LETTER YYA≡ 09AF য 09BC $়
Additional vowels for Sanskrit
09E0 ৠ BENGALI LETTER VOCALIC RR
09E1 ৡ BENGALI LETTER VOCALIC LL

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09E2
09E3Bengali$ৢ$ৣ

BENGALI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L
BENGALI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL

Reserved
For viram punctuation, use the generic Indic 0964 and 0965.
Note that these punctuation marks are referred to as dahri
and double dahri in Bangla.
09E4 " <reserved>→ 0964 । devanagari danda
09E5 " <reserved>→ 0965 ॥ devanagari double dandaDigits
09E6 ০
09E7 ১
09E8 ২
09E9 ৩
09EA ৪
09EB ৫
09EC ৬
09ED ৭
09EE ৮
09EF ৯

09FE09FE
ঽ$BENGALI SANDHI MARK• indicates external sandhi in Sanskrit documents→ 09BD ঽ bengali sign avagraha→ 111C9 $L sharada sandhi mark→ 1145E $𑑇 newa sandhi mark

BENGALI DIGIT ZEROBENGALI DIGIT ONE
BENGALI DIGIT TWO
BENGALI DIGIT THREE
BENGALI DIGIT FOURBENGALI DIGIT FIVEBENGALI DIGIT SIX
BENGALI DIGIT SEVEN
BENGALI DIGIT EIGHTBENGALI DIGIT NINE

Additions for Assamese
09F0 ৰ BENGALI LETTER RA WITH MIDDLE DIAGONAL= Assamese letter ra
09F1 ৱ BENGALI LETTER RA WITH LOWER DIAGONAL= Assamese letter wa= bengali letter va with lower diagonal (1.0)
Currency symbols
09F2 ৲ BENGALI RUPEE MARK= taka
• historic currency sign
09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
= Bangladeshi taka
Historic symbols for fractional values
The use of these signs is not limited to currency, despite thecharacter names.
09F4 ৴ BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR ONE• not in current usage
09F5 ৵ BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR TWO• not in current usage
09F6 ৶ BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR THREE• not in current usage
09F7 ৷ BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR FOUR
09F8 ৸ BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR ONE LESS
THAN THE DENOMINATOR
09F9 ৹ BENGALI CURRENCY DENOMINATOR SIXTEENSign
09FA

৺ BENGALI ISSHAR= ishvar• represents the name of a deity= svargiya• written before the name of a deceased person

Historic currency sign
09FBBENGALI GANDA MARKSigns
09FC  BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
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