U+0F41 "ཁ" Tibetan Letter Kha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F41 "ཁ" Tibetan Letter Kha is the second consonant in the Tibetan abugida, representing the aspirated voiceless velar plosive sound, similar to the "kh" in the English word "khan." It is a fundamental component of the Tibetan script, used in the writing of Classical, Literary, and modern spoken Tibetan languages, as well as in other languages like Dzongkha and Ladakhi. This character belongs to the Tibetan block of Unicode, where it can combine with vowel signs and other diacritics to form syllables, and it holds cultural significance in Tibetan Buddhism where it appears in sacred texts and mantras.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F41
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter Kha
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཁ
HTML Hex Encoding ཁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F41
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f41

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 Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter