Bengali

The Bengali script is also known as Bangla. In Assam, the preferred name of the script is Asamiya or Assamese. The Assamese 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
098F এ Bengali Letter E
0990 ঐ Bengali Letter Ai
0993 ও Bengali Letter O
0994 ঔ Bengali Letter Au

Consonants

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
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
09B2 ল Bengali Letter La
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
09C7 ে Bengali Vowel Sign E
  •stands to the left of the consonant
09C8 ৈ Bengali Vowel Sign Ai
  •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.
09CB ো Bengali Vowel Sign O
  ≡09C7 ে 09BE া
09CC ৌ Bengali Vowel Sign Au
  ≡09C7 ে 09D7 ৗ

Virama

09CD ◌্ 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 in CompositionExclusions.txt. That means that they do not recompose during normalization. The NFC form is the same as the decomposed sequence.
09DC ড় Bengali Letter Rra
  ≡09A1 ড 09BC ◌়
09DD ঢ় Bengali Letter Rha
  ≡09A2 ঢ 09BC ◌়
09DF য় Bengali Letter Yya
  ≡09AF য 09BC ◌়

Additional vowels for Sanskrit

09E0 ৠ Bengali Letter Vocalic Rr
09E1 ৡ Bengali Letter Vocalic Ll
09E2 ◌ৢ Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic L
09E3 ◌ৣ 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 danda

Digits

09E6 ০ Bengali Digit Zero
09E7 ১ Bengali Digit One
09E8 ২ Bengali Digit Two
09E9 ৩ Bengali Digit Three
09EA ৪ Bengali Digit Four
09EB ৫ Bengali Digit Five
09EC ৬ Bengali Digit Six
09ED ৭ Bengali Digit Seven
09EE ৮ Bengali Digit Eight
09EF ৯ Bengali 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 the character 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 Sixteen

Sign

09FA ৺ Bengali Isshar
  =ishvar
  •represents the name of a deity
  =svargiya
  •written before the name of a deceased person

Historic currency sign

09FB ৻ Bengali Ganda Mark

Signs

09FC ৼ Bengali Letter Vedic Anusvara
09FD ৽ Bengali Abbreviation Sign
09FE ◌৾ Bengali Sandhi Mark
  •indicates external sandhi in Sanskrit documents
  →09BD ঽ bengali sign avagraha
  →111C9 ◌𑇉 sharada sandhi mark
  →1145E ◌𑑞 newa sandhi mark

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