A (Bengali)
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অ is the first vowel in the Bengali alphabet, and by extension related alphabets such as Assamese. This letter is used to represent the open-mid back rounded vowel, and while equivalent to the inherent 'a' found in many other Indian languages (as found aside consonants which do not otherwise have a marked vowel), has this phonemic difference in common with many Eastern Indo-Aryan languages such as Assamese and Oriya.
Character representation
By virtue of being equivalent to the inherent 'a', this is the only vowel without a combining form and thus has only one codepoint.
| Preview | অ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | BENGALI LETTER A | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 2437 | U+0985 |
| UTF-8 | 224 166 133 | E0 A6 85 |
| Numeric character reference | অ |
অ |
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