U+0F47 "ཇ" Tibetan Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཇ
U+0F47 "ཇ" Tibetan Letter Ja is the seventh consonant in the Tibetan alphabet, representing a voiced palatal affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "jump." This character is used in written Tibetan, often appearing as a component in words and as a radical in the formation of more complex syllables, such as when combined with vowel marks or other consonant modifiers. In the Tibetan writing system, which is an abugida, the letter ja occupies a specific position in the consonant sequence and carries cultural significance in texts ranging from Buddhist scriptures to modern literature, reflecting its role in preserving the phonetic and orthographic traditions of the Tibetan language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F47 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Ja |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F47 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f47 |