U+0F65 "ཥ" Tibetan Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཥ
U+0F65 "ཥ" Tibetan Letter Ssa is a character used in the Tibetan script to represent a specific consonant sound. It is a less common letter, primarily employed in transliterating Sanskrit and other foreign words into Tibetan, where it denotes a retroflex sibilant similar to the English "sh" sound but articulated with the tongue curled back. In the standard Tibetan alphabet, it is considered part of the extended set of letters, often appearing in scholarly or religious texts to accurately render non-native terms, particularly those from Buddhist Sanskrit sources.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F65 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Ssa |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Tibetan Letter Reversed Sha |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F65 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f65 |