Bengali (Unicode block)

Bengali
Range	U+0980..U+09FF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Bengali
Major alphabets	Bengali Assamese
Assigned	93 code points
Unused	35 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)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: Template:Contains Indic text

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Rian, 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

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

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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

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৾

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

History

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

Final code points	Count	Version	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
U+0980	1	7.0	L2/11-359	N4157	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
			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
			L2/12-184		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
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	1.0.0			(to be determined)
U+09BD	1	4.0	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
			L2/03-104		Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
			L2/04-432		Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
U+09CE	1	4.1	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
			L2/03-084		Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
			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
			L2/04-262	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
U+09FB	1	5.2	L2/07-192	N3311	Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS