U+0F68 "ཨ" Tibetan Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F68 "ཨ" Tibetan Letter A is the first consonant in the Tibetan script, representing the glottal stop sound and serving as a foundational vowel carrier in Tibetan orthography. It is used as a base letter for creating many composite syllables, often carrying an inherent 'a' vowel unless modified by a diacritic, and appears frequently in Tibetan texts, including religious and literary works. This character is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode, encoded for digital representation of the Tibetan language and its various dialects.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F68
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter A
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཨ
HTML Hex Encoding ཨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F68
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F68
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f68

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