U+0FB5 "ྵ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0FB5 "ྵ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent a subjoined form of the consonant "ssa," which is one of the four special retroflex consonants in the Tibetan alphabet. This character appears beneath a base consonant as part of a stacked conjunct, and it is encoded in the Unicode block for Tibetan from U+0F00 to U+0FFF. Its primary function is to modify the pronunciation of the base letter, typically adding a retroflex sibilant sound, and it is essential for accurately writing certain Tibetan words, particularly those of Sanskrit origin or those requiring complex orthographic stacks. As a subjoined form, it does not stand alone and must always follow a base consonant in the text stream, contributing to the distinctive vertical stacking characteristic of Tibetan script.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ྵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ྵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xBE 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0FB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000FB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0fb5 |
Unicode Properties