Bengali (Unicode block)

Unicode block

Unicode character block

Bengali

Range| U+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Bengali
Major alphabets| Bengali, Assamese
Assigned| 96 code points
Unused| 32 reserved code points
Source standards| ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)| 89 (+89)
4.0 (2003)| 90 (+1)
4.1 (2005)| 91 (+1)
5.2 (2009)| 92 (+1)
7.0 (2014)| 93 (+1)
10.0 (2017)| 95 (+2)
11.0 (2018)| 96 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.

## Block

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Bengali[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F
U+098x  | ঀ | ঁ | ং | ঃ |  | অ | আ | ই | ঈ | উ | ঊ | ঋ | ঌ |  |  | এ
U+099x  | ঐ |  |  | ও | ঔ | ক | খ | গ | ঘ | ঙ | চ | ছ | জ | ঝ | ঞ | ট
U+09Ax  | ঠ | ড | ঢ | ণ | ত | থ | দ | ধ | ন |  | প | ফ | ব | ভ | ম | য
U+09Bx  | র |  | ল |  |  |  | শ | ষ | স | হ |  |  | ় | ঽ | া | ি
U+09Cx  | ী | ু | ূ | ৃ | ৄ |  |  | ে | ৈ |  |  | ো | ৌ | ্ | ৎ |
U+09Dx  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ৗ |  |  |  |  | ড় | ঢ় |  | য়
U+09Ex  | ৠ | ৡ | ৢ | ৣ |  |  | ০ | ১ | ২ | ৩ | ৪ | ৫ | ৬ | ৭ | ৮ | ৯
U+09Fx  | ৰ | ৱ | ৲ | ৳ | ৴ | ৵ | ৶ | ৷ | ৸ | ৹ | ৺ | ৻ | ৼ | ৽ | ৾ |
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

## History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bengali block:

Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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1.0.0 | U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA | 89 | UTC/1991-056 |  |  | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057 |  |  | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048B |  |  | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
| L2/01-303 |  | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
| L2/01-304 |  | Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
| L2/01-305 |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
| L2/01-430R |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
| L2/03-113 |  | Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
| L2/08-288 |  | Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values
| L2/08-361 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)", UTC #117 Minutes
| L2/09-225R |  | Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.1.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
| L2/20-055 |  | Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
| L2/20-015R |  | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
4.0 | U+09BD | 1 |  | L2/01-431R[b] |  | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
| L2/01-405R |  | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, "Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R"
| L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
| L2/03-084 |  | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
| L2/03-102 |  | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
| L2/03-101.1 |  | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
| L2/03-104 |  | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
| L2/04-102 |  | Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
| L2/04-432 |  | Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
4.1 | U+09CE | 1 |  | L2/00-303 | N2261 | Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23
| L2/00-304 | N2261-1 | Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.12 Proposal to synchronize Bengali standard with 10646", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
| L2/03-084 |  | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
| L2/03-102 |  | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
| L2/03-101.1 |  | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
| L2/04-060 |  | Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
| L2/04-062 |  | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
| L2/04-102 |  | Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
| L2/04-262 | N2810 | Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document)
| L2/04-192 | N2811 | Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode
| L2/04-233 | N2812 | Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta
| L2/04-252 | N2813 | Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback
| L2/04-264 | N2809 | Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS
| L2/04-432 |  | Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
5.2 | U+09FB | 1 |  |  | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
| L2/07-192 | N3311 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
| L2/07-225 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Bengali", UTC #112 Minutes
7.0 | U+0980 | 1 |  | L2/11-359 |  | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
| L2/11-403 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), "IV. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
| L2/11-408 |  | Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals
| L2/12-079 |  | Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents
| L2/12-121 | N4157 | Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali
| L2/12-147 |  | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VII. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
| L2/12-184 |  | Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
| L2/12-277 |  | Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
10.0 | U+09FC | 1 |  | L2/15-204 |  | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
| L2/15-161 |  | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
| L2/15-187 |  | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.1", UTC #144 Minutes
|  | N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
U+09FD | 1 |  | L2/15-172R |  | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
| L2/15-204 |  | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
| L2/15-187 |  | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #144 Minutes
|  | N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0 | U+09FE | 1 |  | L2/16-322 | N4808 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali
| L2/17-037 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "4. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-016 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.2", UTC #150 Minutes
| L2/17-130 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
| L2/17-153 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
| L2/17-103 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes

1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
2. ^ See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

## References

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1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.