U+0F7E "ཾ" Tibetan Sign Rjes Su Nga Ro Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F7E "ཾ" Tibetan Sign Rjes Su Nga Ro is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script, specifically functioning as a vocalic diacritic that indicates a nasalized vowel sound following a consonant. It is typically placed above a base character to modify its pronunciation, and its name "Rjes Su Nga Ro" translates from Tibetan as "the nasal sound after [the letter] nga," reflecting its historical role in representing a post-nasalization effect. This sign is part of the Tibetan writing system's rich inventory of phonetic markers, essential for accurately rendering classical and liturgical texts, particularly in the transcription of Sanskrit and other Indic languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F7E
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Sign Rjes Su Nga Ro
Unicode 1.0 Name Tibetan Anusvara
Block Tibetan
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཾ
HTML Hex Encoding ཾ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F7E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F7E
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f7e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Tibetan
Script Extensions Tibetan
Indic Syllabic Category Bindu
Indic Positional Category Top
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend