U+11CA2 "饝并" Marchen Subjoined Letter Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饝并
U+11CA2 "饝并" Marchen Subjoined Letter Tsa is a graphic element used in the Marchen script, a Brahmi derived writing system historically employed to write the Zhangzhung language in the Tibetan cultural region. This specific character represents a subscript or conjunct form of the consonant "tsa," designed to appear smaller and attached beneath a preceding base character in a text stack, functioning as a subjoined or "subordinate" letter rather than an independent initial consonant. It thus allows for the representation of complex consonant clusters within the Marchen script's syllabic writing system, where multiple sounds are combined into a single orthographic unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11CA2 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Tsa |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDCA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011CA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udca2 |