U+0F55 "ཕ" Tibetan Letter Pha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཕ
U+0F55 "ཕ" Tibetan Letter Pha is the thirty-eighth character of the Tibetan script and represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive consonant sound, often romanized as "ph" or "p" with an aspiration mark. It is a fundamental letter in the Tibetan alphabet used for writing the Tibetan language, as well as for transliterating Sanskrit and other classical texts, and it belongs to the category of aspirated consonants that distinguish Tibetan phonology. This character can serve as a base for forming complex stacked syllables in Tibetan orthography, where it combines with subjoined consonants to create ligatures in traditional calligraphy and digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F55 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Pha |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f55 |