U+0F60 "འ" Tibetan Letter -A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
འ
U+0F60 "འ" Tibetan Letter -A is a fundamental glyph in the Tibetan script, representing a glottal consonant or a syllable-initial vowel carrier in the Tibetan writing system. It functions as a base character that can combine with various vowel signs and subjoined consonants to form complex syllables, and its presence often indicates a voiced throat sound or serves as a placeholder for a vowel when no initial consonant is needed. This character is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode, encoded at U+0F60, and is commonly used in the transcription of classical and modern Tibetan texts, where it distinguishes grammatical and phonetic structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F60 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter -A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Tibetan Letter Aa |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | འ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | འ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f60 |