U+0F5D "ཝ" Tibetan Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཝ
U+0F5D "ཝ" Tibetan Letter Wa is the forty-second consonant of the Tibetan abugida script, representing the sound "wa" and functioning as a semivowel in the Tibetan writing system. It is used in the Tibetan language for both native vocabulary and transliterated terms, often appearing in words related to concepts like snow, moon, and animal names. This character derives from the ancient Brahmi script and serves as a subjoined component in complex conjuncts, appearing as a subscript form beneath other consonants to modify their pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F5D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Wa |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f5d |