U+0F5C "ཛྷ" Tibetan Letter Dzha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F5C "ཛྷ" Tibetan Letter Dzha is a character within the Tibetan script block, specifically representing the aspirated voiced retroflex affricate sound /ɖʐʰ/ used in the Tibetan language and its related writing systems. It is part of the standard Tibetan alphabet, typically positioned as a compound or modified form derived from the base letter "Dza" (ཛ), where the addition of a subscribed "ha" indicates aspiration. In Tibetan orthography, this letter appears in transliterations of Sanskrit texts and in certain native words, though it is less common than simpler base consonants. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and preservation of this phonetic distinction, supporting accurate rendering in modern computing environments for Tibetan language documentation and transcription.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F5C
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter Dzha
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ཛ" U+0F5B Tibetan Letter Dza
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཛྷ
HTML Hex Encoding ཛྷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F5C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F5C
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f5c

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ཛ" U+0F5B Tibetan Letter Dza
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha
NFKC Simple Casefold "ཛ" U+0F5B Tibetan Letter Dza
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha
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