U+0FC8 "࿈" Tibetan Symbol Phur Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0FC8 "࿈" Tibetan Symbol Phur Pa is a typographic glyph representing the phurba, a ritual dagger deeply significant in Tibetan Buddhism and Bön traditions. This symbol is often associated with the wrathful deity Vajrakilaya and is used in sacred art, meditation, and ceremonial contexts to symbolize the cutting through of obstacles, ego, and negativity. It appears in Tibetan texts, thangkas, and ritual objects as a spiritual emblem, and its encoded form in Unicode allows for its accurate digital representation in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FC8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Symbol Phur Pa |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࿈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࿈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBF 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fc8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Tibetan |
| Script Extensions | Tibetan |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |