BENGALI LETTER I character

BENGALI LETTER I
U+0987
2439
ই
ই
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Bengali
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ই












BENGALI LETTER I is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of BENGALI LETTER I is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Bengali block. The Bengali block includes characters used in the Bengali script, which is used for writing Bengali, Assamese, and several other languages in eastern India and Bangladesh. The script is also an abugida, where consonants have an inherent vowel sound. This block contains characters for vowels, consonants, numerals, and various diacritical marks that modify the vowel sounds or silence the inherent vowel. Bengali is the fifth most spoken language in the world, and this script is central to its rich literary tradition, which includes works from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore..