U+0F8E "ྎ" Tibetan Subjoined Sign Mchu Can Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྎ
U+0F8E "ྎ" Tibetan Subjoined Sign Mchu Can is a diacritical mark used in the Tibetan script to indicate a subjoined consonant. It specifically represents the "mchu can" or "beaked" form of the letter "a," which alters the pronunciation and articulation of the base character it is attached to. This character is placed beneath a consonant to create a conjunct, a common feature in Tibetan writing that combines multiple sounds into a single complex character. Its usage is integral to representing certain Tibetan words and syllables accurately, particularly those requiring the distinct mchu can modification for proper phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F8E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Sign Mchu Can |
| 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 0xBE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f8e |