U+0FD3 "࿓" Tibetan Mark Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࿓
U+0FD3 "࿓" Tibetan Mark Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun Ma is a punctuation mark used in Tibetan script, specifically in the Brda Rnying (archaic or old style) writing system, to denote the beginning of a section or a line of text within a larger discourse. Its name translates to "the initial old letter head mark" in English, and it serves a similar purpose to a danda or opening punctua tion in other scripts, helping to visually structure and organize religious, literary, or historical manuscripts. This character is part of the Tibetan block in the Unicode standard and is primarily found in classical Tibetan texts, where it functions as a distinctive marker for starting a new phrase or stanza.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0FD3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Tibetan Mark Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun Ma |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࿓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࿓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBF 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0FD3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000FD3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0fd3 |
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 | Break Before |
| 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 |