U+0F58 "མ" Tibetan Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
མ
U+0F58 "མ" Tibetan Letter Ma is the representation of the consonant "ma" in the Tibetan script, which is an abugida used for writing Tibetan and other closely related languages. This character corresponds to the bilabial nasal sound and is an essential component of the Tibetan alphabet, often serving as a base letter in syllabic blocks. Its visual form features a distinct hook or curve on the right side, typical of Tibetan script's cursive and angular aesthetics, and it is encoded in the Tibetan block of the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms for linguistic, religious, and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Ma |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | མ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | མ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f58 |