U+0F16 "༖" Tibetan Logotype Sign Lhag Rtags Unicode Character

U+0F16 "༖" Tibetan Logotype Sign Lhag Rtags is a punctuation mark used in the Tibetan script, specifically employed to indicate a major break or pause within a text, often functioning similarly to a paragraph or section separator. Its name, "Lhag Rtags," translates to "extra sign" in English, and it is typically visualized as a curved, ornamental flourish that differs from the more common Tibetan tsheg (dot) or shad (vertical bar). This character is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode and is utilized in classical and liturgical manuscripts to denote a higher-level division in the flow of content, such as the end of a significant thought or thematic unit.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0F16
Version Added	2.0
Name	Tibetan Logotype Sign Lhag Rtags
Block	Tibetan
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	༖
HTML Hex Encoding	༖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE0 0xBC 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0F16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000F16
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0f16

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Tibetan
Script Extensions	Tibetan
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other