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

Code Point U+0FAB
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Subjoined Letter Dza
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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0FAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000FAB
C/C++/Java Escape \u0fab

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