U+0FD3 "" Tibetan Mark Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Serif Tibetan Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Tibetan Mark Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun Ma

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