U+0FA7 "ྦྷ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Bha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0FA7 "ྦྷ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Bha is a character in the Tibetan script used to represent the subjoined form of the consonant "bha," which appears as a diacritic-like mark attached beneath a base consonant in stacked orthographic sequences. It is part of the Tibetan block within the Unicode Standard and is employed in the writing of classical Tibetan and related languages, where it modifies the pronunciation of the root syllable by indicating a following aspirated "b" sound. This character does not occur in isolation but functions as a component of complex syllable clusters, preserving the textual integrity of traditional Tibetan manuscripts and digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point U+0FA7
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Subjoined Letter Bha
Block Tibetan
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ྦ" U+0FA6 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ba
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ྦྷ
HTML Hex Encoding ྦྷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBE 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0FA7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000FA7
C/C++/Java Escape \u0fa7

Unicode Properties

Composition Exclusion Yes
Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ྦ" U+0FA6 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ba
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha
NFKC Simple Casefold "ྦ" U+0FA6 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ba
"ྷ" U+0FB7 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ha
Script Tibetan
Script Extensions Tibetan
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Subjoined
Indic Positional Category Bottom
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