U+0F65 "ཥ" Tibetan Letter Ssa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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