Bengali character notes

This page lists characters in the following Unicode block and provides information about them.

See also the companion document, Bengali/Bangla, for a summary of the Bengali script and its use for the Bangla language.

Phonetic transcriptions should be treated as an approximate guide, only. Many are more phonemic than phonetic, and there may be variations depending on the source of the transcription.

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Various signs

Independent vowels

Consonants

Various signs

Dependent vowel signs

Two-part dependent vowel signs

Virama

Additional consonant

Sign

Additional consonants

Additional vowels for Sanskrit

Digits

Additions for Assamese

Currency symbols

Historic symbols for fractional values

Sign

Historic currency sign

Signs

Common punctuation

References

  1. [ b ] Bhattacharya, Private correspondance with Tanmoy Bhattacharya, July 2004.
  2. [ c ] Ishida, Ready-made Counter Styles
  3. [ d ] Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-507993-0
  4. [ p ] Anshuman Pandey, Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in ISO/IEC 10646
  5. [ r ] William Radice, Teach Yourself Bengali, Hodder & Shoughton, ISBN 0-340-86029-4
  6. [ u ] The Unicode Standard
  7. [ w ] Wikipedia, Bengali Alphabet