U+0FBA "ྺ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Fixed-Form Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0FBA "ྺ" Tibetan Subjoined Letter Fixed-Form Wa is a character used in the Tibetan script to represent the subjoined form of the consonant "wa" in a fixed or non-joining style within composite stacks in Tibetan orthography. Unlike the standard subjoined wa which often ligatures with the base character, this fixed-form variant maintains a distinct shape that does not reduce its size or curl around other letters, making it useful in contexts where precise typographic control is needed, such as in historical manuscripts or specialized transliteration systems. It belongs to the Tibetan block in Unicode and is encoded for representing written Tibetan, particularly in syllables where the wa acts as a subscript element without altering its core visual form.

General Properties

Code Point U+0FBA
Version Added 3.0
Name Tibetan Subjoined Letter Fixed-Form 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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0FBA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000FBA
C/C++/Java Escape \u0fba

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