BENGALI LETTER VOCALIC L·U+098C

Character Information

Code Point
U+098C
HEX
098C
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E0 A6 8C
11100000 10100110 10001100
UTF16 (big Endian)
09 8C
00001001 10001100
UTF16 (little Endian)
8C 09
10001100 00001001
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 09 8C
00000000 00000000 00001001 10001100
UTF32 (little Endian)
8C 09 00 00
10001100 00001001 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ঌ
URI Encoded
%E0%A6%8C

Description

The Unicode character U+098C, known as Bengali Letter Vocalic L (ব), is a significant component of the Bengali script, which is used primarily for writing the Bengali language. This specific letter serves as a vowel in the Bengali alphabet and plays a crucial role in phonetics and orthography. In digital text, U+098C is commonly employed to transcribe various words and phrases within the Bengali language, which is spoken by millions of people primarily in India's West Bengal state and Bangladesh. The Bengali script is part of the Indic family of scripts, a group that includes other prominent scripts like Devanagari and Gurmukhi. U+098C's role within this script system underscores its importance to the preservation and advancement of Bengali culture and language. As a result, it is an essential character for accurate representation of texts in digital formats, enabling proper communication and understanding across linguistic boundaries.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 2444 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+098C. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+098C to binary: 00001001 10001100. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100000 10100110 10001100