U+0F69 "ཀྵ" Tibetan Letter Kssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཀྵ
U+0F69 "ཀྵ" Tibetan Letter Kssa is a complex consonant ligature used in the Tibetan script, specifically representing the combined sound of "k" and "sa" (ksa). It belongs to the Tibetan block of Unicode and is primarily employed in transliterating Sanskrit words, such as those found in Buddhist texts, where it corresponds to the conjunct character "क्ष" (kṣa) in Devanagari. This character is formed by stacking the subjoined form of "ཀ" (ka) beneath "ས" (sa), reflecting the Tibetan writing system's ability to represent compound syllables through vertical stacking. Though less common in everyday Tibetan language, it remains important for accurately rendering classical religious and scholarly terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F69 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Kssa |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ཀ" U+0F40 Tibetan Letter Ka "ྵ" U+0FB5 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཀྵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཀྵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F69 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f69 |