U+0F73 "ཱི" Tibetan Vowel Sign Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཱི
U+0F73 "ཱི" Tibetan Vowel Sign Ii is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tibetan script to represent a long vowel sound, specifically a lengthened 'i' vowel. It appears as a superscript mark placed above a consonant letter, modifying its pronunciation by extending the vowel duration. Unlike some other Tibetan vowel signs, this character is formed by combining the standard vowel sign I with a second component to indicate length, making it a distinct encoded entity in Unicode for accurate text rendering and processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F73 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Vowel Sign Ii |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ཱ" U+0F71 Tibetan Vowel Sign Aa "ི" U+0F72 Tibetan Vowel Sign I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཱི |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཱི |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f73 |