U+0985 BENGALI LETTER A

The Unicode character U+0985, officially named BENGALI LETTER A, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Bengali block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Beng script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.