U+0F4F "ཏ" Tibetan Letter Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F4F "ཏ" Tibetan Letter Ta is the representation of the first consonant of the second row in the Tibetan alphabet, corresponding to the sound "ta" as in English "star." It belongs to the Tibetan script, which is an abugida used primarily for writing the Tibetan language, as well as other closely related languages like Dzongkha. In the Tibetan writing system, this character functions as a basic consonant letter and can be modified with various vowel diacritics or combined with other consonants to form complex conjuncts. Historically, it derives from the Gupta script during the development of the Tibetan script in the 7th century and plays a fundamental role in forming the syllables that make up Tibetan texts, including religious and classical literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F4F
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter Ta
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཏ
HTML Hex Encoding ཏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F4F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F4F
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f4f

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