U+0F43 "གྷ" Tibetan Letter Gha Unicode Character
U+0F43 "གྷ" Tibetan Letter Gha is a consonant used primarily in classical Tibetan and Sanskrit transliteration, representing the voiced aspirated velar sound, akin to a breathy "g" as in the English "loghouse." It is part of the Tibetan script block and belongs to a set of letters derived from the Tibetan prefix ga with a subscribed "ha" marker, which indicates aspiration. Historically, this character appears in liturgical and scholarly texts for writing words of Indic origin, particularly in Buddhist scriptures and mantras. In modern standard Tibetan, the distinct phonetic use of gha has largely merged with the unaspirated ga (ཀ), but "གྷ" remains an important orthographic symbol for preserving precise pronunciation in religious and academic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F43 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Gha |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ག" U+0F42 Tibetan Letter Ga "ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | གྷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | གྷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f43 |