U+0F08 "༈" Tibetan Mark Sbrul Shad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0F08 "༈" Tibetan Mark Sbrul Shad is a punctuation symbol used in the Tibetan script, specifically functioning as a decorative or ornamental delimiter rather than a standard textual separator. Its name combines "sbrul," meaning snake, and "shad," a vertical bar used in Tibetan writing, evoking the visual image of a coiled serpent that divides sections of text or marks boundaries in liturgical or formal documents. This character appears in religious manuscripts and traditional calligraphy, where it adds both structural clarity and artistic flourish to the written word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Mark Sbrul Shad |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Tibetan Rgyanshad |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ༈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ༈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f08 |