Unicode Character "আ" (U+0986)

The character আ (Bengali Letter Aa) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0986. It is encoded in the Bengali block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as আ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Bengali Letter Aa
Unicode Codepoint U+0986
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Bengali
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Bengali
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0986 Conversion

HTML (decimal) আ
HTML (hex) আ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%A6%86
CSS \000986
JavaScript, JSON \u0986
C, C++, Java \u0986
Python \u0986
Rust \u{0986}
Ruby \u0986

How to type "আ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 9 8 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 9 8 6. Release Alt.

Preview

  • আ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • আ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • আ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xA6 0x86
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0986
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000986

References