U+0FAD "ྭ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྭ
U+0FAD "ྭ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Wa is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent the subjoined form of the consonant "wa," which appears beneath another consonant in a stacked cluster to indicate a specific phonetic modification, such as the addition of a labial or glide sound. It is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode and is employed primarily in the transcription of Tibetan, Dzongkha, and sometimes Sanskrit texts written in Tibetan script. As a subjoined letter, it is not used independently but rather attaches to a base character, altering the pronunciation and maintaining the script's vertical stacking tradition without modifying the overall syllable structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FAD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter Wa |
| 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 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FAD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fad |