U+0F96 "ྖ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྖ
U+0F96 "ྖ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Cha is a combining glyph used in the Tibetan script to represent the subjoined form of the consonant "cha" when it appears as a subscript under a base letter within a consonant cluster. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Tibetan block and is typically employed in the vertical stacking of syllables, where it modifies the phonetic value of the preceding base character without carrying its own inherent vowel. It serves as a vital component in written Tibetan, allowing for the representation of complex conjuncts that are essential for accurately transcribing the language’s rich literary and liturgical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F96 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter Cha |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f96 |