U+0FA9 "ྩ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0FA9 "ྩ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Tsa is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent the subjoined form of the consonant 'tsa', which appears beneath a base character to form a conjunct consonant cluster. In the Tibetan writing system, this subjoined letter is an essential component for accurately spelling words that require a stack of consonants, such as those found in traditional religious texts and transliterations from Sanskrit. It is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode and is displayed as a smaller variant of the standard letter tsa, attached below the preceding character in a vertical stack.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FA9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter Tsa |
| 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fa9 |