U+0F69 "ཀྵ" Tibetan Letter Kssa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ཀ" U+0F40 Tibetan Letter Ka
"ྵ" U+0FB5 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa
NFKC Simple Casefold "ཀ" U+0F40 Tibetan Letter Ka
"ྵ" U+0FB5 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa
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