U+0FA8 "ྨ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ma Unicode Character

U+0FA8 "ྨ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ma is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent the subjoined form of the consonant "ma," appearing beneath a base character to indicate a conjunct consonant. This special character is crucial for writing complex Tibetan syllables, where it modifies the pronunciation of the preceding letter by adding an inherent "m" sound, and it is typically employed in the standard orthography of the Tibetan language for transcribing religious, literary, and everyday texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0FA8
Version Added	2.0
Name	Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ma
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 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0FA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000FA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0fa8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
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