U+0FB8 "ྸ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྸ
U+0FB8 "ྸ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter A is a combining mark used in the Tibetan script to represent the vowel "a" when it appears as a subscript or subjoined form beneath a consonant. This character is part of the Tibetan block in Unicode and is primarily employed in the context of Tibetan and certain related South Asian scripts, where it modifies the base consonant to indicate a specific phonetic value or to form complex conjunct syllables. It is typically rendered as a small curved or hooked shape that attaches below the main character, and it is distinct from the independent vowel form of "a" in Tibetan writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FB8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter A |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fb8 |