Bengali Letter Aa

U+0986
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal আ
Hex আ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0986
Decimal
2438
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Block
Bengali
Script
Bengali
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

অা U+0985 U+09BE

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Bengali Letter Aa.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
আ
HTML Hex
আ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E0 A6 86
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
09 86
UTF-32 Hex
00000986
CSS Escape
\986
JavaScript Escape
\u0986
Python Escape
\u0986
URL Encoded
%E0%A6%86
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