U+0FB9 "ྐྵ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Kssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ྐྵ
U+0FB9 "ྐྵ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Kssa is a component of the Tibetan script block, specifically representing the subjoined form of the conjunct letter "ksa," which is written below the preceding base character to form a vertical stack. This character is used in Tibetan language orthography to transcribe consonant clusters, particularly those derived from Sanskrit loanwords, where the "k" and "s" sounds are combined without an intervening vowel. Its design follows the standard Tibetan subjoined consonant shape, reduced in size and attached to the baseline of the main character, and it contributes to the accurate representation of historical and liturgical texts in the Tibetan writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FB9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Subjoined Letter Kssa |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ྐ" U+0F90 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ka "ྵ" U+0FB5 Tibetan Subjoined Letter Ssa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ྐྵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ྐྵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fb9 |