U+0FAB "ྫ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0FAB "ྫ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dza is a combining diacritic mark used in the Tibetan script to indicate the subjoined form of the consonant "dza" when attached below a base character within a vertical stack, a common feature of Tibetan orthography for representing conjunct consonants and certain phonetic shifts. This character belongs to the broader set of Tibetan subjoined letters, which are essential for accurately writing words borrowed from Sanskrit or for forming complex clusters without altering the base syllable's structure. In practice, it appears beneath the main character in a text, modifying its pronunciation by adding a "dza" sound, and is typically rendered in Unicode-aware fonts that support the full Tibetan block, ensuring proper visual stacking and linguistic fidelity.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ྫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ྫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xBE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0FAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000FAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0fab |
Unicode Properties