U+0F62 "ར" Tibetan Letter Ra Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F62 "ར" Tibetan Letter Ra is a fundamental consonant in the Tibetan script, representing the voiced alveolar trill or approximant sound "ra." This character is used in the Tibetan alphabet as the 23rd letter and is a key component in forming syllables and words in the Tibetan language, which is spoken in Tibet and across the Himalayan region. It also appears in the Dzongkha and other related Brahmic scripts, often serving as a base character for composite glyphs or as a subscript in consonant clusters, such as in the digraph "རྒ" for the sound "rga." In Unicode, it is encoded in the Tibetan block (U+0F00 to U+0FFF) and is essential for digital text representation, enabling proper rendering of Tibetan literature, religious texts, and modern communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F62
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter Ra
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ར
HTML Hex Encoding ར
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F62
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F62
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f62

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
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