U+0F8C "ྌ" Tibetan Sign Inverted Mchu Can Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྌ
U+0F8C "ྌ" Tibetan Sign Inverted Mchu Can is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script, specifically representing an inverted form of the "mchu can" or "beak-like" sign. This diacritical mark is placed above or attached to a base consonant in Tibetan orthography to indicate a particular phonetic modification or tone, often associated with transliterating Sanskrit or other foreign sounds. Its use is relatively rare and specialized, found primarily in scholarly or liturgical texts where precise phonetic representation is required, and it contributes to the rich system of Tibetan vowel and consonant modifiers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F8C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Sign Inverted Mchu Can |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ྌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ྌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f8c |