Bengali (Unicode block)

Bengali
Range	U+0980..U+09FF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Bengali
Major alphabets	Bengali, Assamese
Assigned	96 code points
Unused	32 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)
10.0 (2017)	95 (+2)
11.0 (2018)	96 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

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

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

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

৽

৾

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:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	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	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
				L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
				L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/03-113		Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
				L2/08-288		Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values
				L2/08-361		Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)", UTC #117 Minutes
				L2/09-225R		Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.1.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
				L2/20-055		Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
				L2/20-015R		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
4.0	U+09BD	1		L2/01-431R[b]		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
				L2/01-405R		Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R
				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
				L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.1		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
				L2/03-104		Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
				L2/04-102		Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
				L2/04-432		Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
4.1	U+09CE	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
				L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.12 Proposal to synchronize Bengali standard with 10646", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
				L2/03-084		Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
				L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.1		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
				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
				L2/04-102		Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
				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
5.2	U+09FB	1			N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
				L2/07-192	N3311	Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
				L2/07-225		Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Bengali", UTC #112 Minutes
7.0	U+0980	1		L2/11-359		Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
				L2/11-403		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), "IV. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				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
				L2/12-147		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VII. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				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
10.0	U+09FC	1		L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
				L2/15-161		Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
				L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.1", UTC #144 Minutes
					N4739	"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
	U+09FD	1		L2/15-172R		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
				L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
				L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #144 Minutes
					N4739	"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0	U+09FE	1		L2/16-322	N4808	A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali
				L2/17-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "4. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-016		Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.2", UTC #150 Minutes
				L2/17-130		Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
				L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.