U+0F9C "ྜ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྜ
U+0F9C "ྜ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dda is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent a subjoined form of the consonant "dda" that appears beneath a base character to form a conjunct or ligature. This subjoined letter is part of the Tibetan alphabet and is typically employed in the transcription of Indic languages like Sanskrit, where it denotes a retroflex "d" sound. It functions by being placed below a standard Tibetan consonant stack, altering the pronunciation or orthography without standing alone as an independent character. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation of Tibetan texts that require complex stacking for accurate linguistic and religious documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dda |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f9c |