U+0F57 "བྷ" Tibetan Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
བྷ
U+0F57 "བྷ" Tibetan Letter Bha is a consonant used in the Tibetan script, specifically representing the aspirated voiced bilabial sound "bha" and is part of the Tibetan alphabet used for writing the Tibetan language as well as other related languages like Dzongkha. This character is formed by adding a diacritical mark to the base letter Ba (ཨ), indicating a change in aspiration or tone. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded within the Tibetan block and is typically displayed in printed and digital texts to accurately represent Tibetan phonology and orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F57 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Bha |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "བ" U+0F56 Tibetan Letter Ba "ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | བྷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | བྷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f57 |