U+0F42 "ག" Tibetan Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ག
U+0F42 "ག" Tibetan Letter Ga is the third consonant of the Tibetan script, representing the voiced velar stop sound /ɡ/, similar to the English letter "g" in "go". In the Tibetan writing system, it serves as a base character for forming many syllables and can also function as a subscript or superscript in stacked conjuncts, where its form changes to indicate its role within a syllable block. Beyond its phonetic value, "ག" holds linguistic and cultural importance as a fundamental element of the Tibetan alphabet, which is derived from the Brahmi script and used for writing the Tibetan language as well as religious texts in Buddhism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Ga |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ག |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ག |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f42 |