character-tables-tibetan.md

Tibetan character tables

This document lists the per-character shaping information needed to shape Tibetan text.

Table of Contents

• Tibetan character table
• Miscellaneous character table

Tibetan character table

Tibetan glyphs should be classified as in the following table. Codepoints in the Tibetan block with no assigned meaning are designated as unassigned in the Unicode category column.

Assigned codepoints with a null in the Shaping class column evoke no special behavior from the shaping engine. Note that this does include some valid codepoints, such as currency marks, punctuation, and other symbols.

Note: the NUMBER and SYMBOL Shaping classes are important during syllable identification, but generally evoke no further special behavior during the rest of the shaping process.

The Mark-placement subclass column indicates mark-placement positioning for codepoints in the Mark category. Assigned, non-mark codepoints have a null in this column and evoke no special mark-placement behavior. Marks tagged with [Mn] in the Unicode category column are categorized as non-spacing; marks tagged with [Mc] are categorized as spacing-combining.

Some codepoints in the following table use a Shaping class that differs from the codepoint's Unicode General Category. The Shaping class takes precedence during OpenType shaping, as it captures more specific, script-aware behavior.

Codepoint	Unicode category	Shaping class	Mark-placement subclass	Glyph
U+0F00	Letter	null	null	ༀ Syllable Om
U+0F01	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༁ Gter Yig Mgo Truncated A
U+0F02	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༂ Gter Yig Mgo -Um Rnam Bcad Ma
U+0F03	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༃ Gter Yig Mgo -Um Gter Tsheg Ma
U+0F04	Punctuation	null	null	༄ Initial Yig Mgo Mdun Ma
U+0F05	Punctuation	null	null	༅ Closing Yig Mgo Sgab Ma
U+0F06	Punctuation	null	null	༆ Caret Yig Mgo Phur Shad Ma
U+0F07	Punctuation	null	null	༇ Yig Mgo Tsheg Shad Ma
U+0F08	Punctuation	null	null	༈ Sbrul Shad
U+0F09	Punctuation	null	null	༉ Bskur Yig Mgo
U+0F0A	Punctuation	null	null	༊ Bka- Shog Yig Mgo
U+0F0B	Punctuation	null	null	་ Intersyllabic Tsheg
U+0F0C	Punctuation	null	null	༌ Delimiter Tsheg Bstar
U+0F0D	Punctuation	null	null	། Shad
U+0F0E	Punctuation	null	null	༎ Nyis Shad
U+0F0F	Punctuation	null	null	༏ Tsheg Shad
U+0F10	Punctuation	null	null	༐ Nyis Tsheg Shad
U+0F11	Punctuation	null	null	༑ Rin Chen Spungs Shad
U+0F12	Punctuation	null	null	༒ Rgya Gram Shad
U+0F13	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༓ Caret -Dzud Rtags Me Long Can
U+0F14	Punctuation	null	null	༔ Gter Tsheg
U+0F15	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༕ Logotype Sign Chad Rtags
U+0F16	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༖ Logotype Sign Lhag Rtags
U+0F17	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༗ Astrological Sign Sgra Gcan -Char Rtags
U+0F18	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	BOTTOM_POSITION	༘ Astrological Sign -Khyud Pa
U+0F19	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	BOTTOM_POSITION	༙ Astrological Sign Sdong Tshugs
U+0F1A	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༚ Sign Rdel Dkar Gcig
U+0F1B	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༛ Sign Rdel Dkar Gnyis
U+0F1C	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༜ Sign Rdel Dkar Gsum
U+0F1D	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༝ Sign Rdel Nag Gcig
U+0F1E	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༞ Sign Rdel Nag Gnyis
U+0F1F	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༟ Sign Rdel Dkar Rdel Nag
U+0F20	Number	NUMBER	null	༠ Digit Zero
U+0F21	Number	NUMBER	null	༡ Digit One
U+0F22	Number	NUMBER	null	༢ Digit Two
U+0F23	Number	NUMBER	null	༣ Digit Three
U+0F24	Number	NUMBER	null	༤ Digit Four
U+0F25	Number	NUMBER	null	༥ Digit Five
U+0F26	Number	NUMBER	null	༦ Digit Six
U+0F27	Number	NUMBER	null	༧ Digit Seven
U+0F28	Number	NUMBER	null	༨ Digit Eight
U+0F29	Number	NUMBER	null	༩ Digit Nine
U+0F2A	Number	NUMBER	null	༪ Digit Half One
U+0F2B	Number	NUMBER	null	༫ Digit Half Two
U+0F2C	Number	NUMBER	null	༬ Digit Half Three
U+0F2D	Number	NUMBER	null	༭ Digit Half Four
U+0F2E	Number	NUMBER	null	༮ Digit Half Five
U+0F2F	Number	NUMBER	null	༯ Digit Half Six
U+0F30	Number	NUMBER	null	༰ Digit Half Seven
U+0F31	Number	NUMBER	null	༱ Digit Half Eight
U+0F32	Number	NUMBER	null	༲ Digit Half Nine
U+0F33	Number	NUMBER	null	༳ Digit Half Zero
U+0F34	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༴ Bsdus Rtags
U+0F35	Mark [Mn]	SYLLABLE_MODIFIER	BOTTOM_POSITION	༵ Ngas Bzung Nyi Zla
U+0F36	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༶ Caret -Dzud Rtags Bzhi Mig Can
U+0F37	Mark [Mn]	SYLLABLE_MODIFIER	BOTTOM_POSITION	༷ Ngas Bzung Sgor Rtags
U+0F38	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	༸ Che Mgo
U+0F39	Mark [Mn]	NUKTA	TOP_POSITION	༹ Tsa -Phru
U+0F3A	Punctuation [Ps]	null	null	༺ Gug Rtags Gyon
U+0F3B	Punctuation [Pe]	null	null	༻ Gug Rtags Gyas
U+0F3C	Punctuation [Ps]	null	null	༼ Ang Khang Gyon
U+0F3D	Punctuation [Pe]	null	null	༽ Ang Khang Gyas
U+0F3E	Mark [Mc]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	RIGHT_POSITION	༾ Sign Yar Tshes
U+0F3F	Mark [Mc]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	LEFT_POSITION	༿ Sign Mar Tshes
U+0F40	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཀ Ka
U+0F41	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཁ Kha
U+0F42	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ག Ga
U+0F43	Letter	CONSONANT	null	གྷ Gha
U+0F44	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ང Nga
U+0F45	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཅ Ca
U+0F46	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཆ Cha
U+0F47	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཇ Ja
U+0F48	unassigned
U+0F49	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཉ Nya
U+0F4A	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཊ Tta
U+0F4B	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཋ Ttha
U+0F4C	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཌ Dda
U+0F4D	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཌྷ Ddha
U+0F4E	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཎ Nna
U+0F4F	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཏ Ta
U+0F50	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཐ Tha
U+0F51	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ད Da
U+0F52	Letter	CONSONANT	null	དྷ Dha
U+0F53	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ན Na
U+0F54	Letter	CONSONANT	null	པ Pa
U+0F55	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཕ Pha
U+0F56	Letter	CONSONANT	null	བ Ba
U+0F57	Letter	CONSONANT	null	བྷ Bha
U+0F58	Letter	CONSONANT	null	མ Ma
U+0F59	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཙ Tsa
U+0F5A	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཚ Tsha
U+0F5B	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཛ Dza
U+0F5C	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཛྷ Dzha
U+0F5D	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཝ Wa
U+0F5E	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཞ Zha
U+0F5F	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཟ Za
U+0F60	Letter	CONSONANT	null	འ -A
U+0F61	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཡ Ya
U+0F62	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ར Ra
U+0F63	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ལ La
U+0F64	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཤ Sha
U+0F65	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཥ Ssa
U+0F66	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ས Sa
U+0F67	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཧ Ha
U+0F68	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཨ A
U+0F69	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཀྵ Kssa
U+0F6A	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཪ Fixed-Form Ra
U+0F6B	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཫ Kka
U+0F6C	Letter	CONSONANT	null	ཬ Rra
U+0F6D	unassigned
U+0F6E	unassigned
U+0F6F	unassigned
U+0F70	unassigned
U+0F71	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	BOTTOM_POSITION	ཱ Sign Aa
U+0F72	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ི Sign I
U+0F73	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ཱི Sign Ii
U+0F74	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	BOTTOM_POSITION	ུ Sign U
U+0F75	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	BOTTOM_POSITION	ཱུ Sign Uu
U+0F76	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ྲྀ Sign Vocalic R
U+0F77	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ཷ Sign Vocalic Rr
U+0F78	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ླྀ Sign Vocalic L
U+0F79	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ཹ Sign Vocalic Ll
U+0F7A	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ེ Sign E
U+0F7B	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ཻ Sign Ee
U+0F7C	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ོ Sign O
U+0F7D	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ཽ Sign Oo
U+0F7E	Mark [Mn]	BINDU	TOP_POSITION	ཾ Sign Rjes Su Nga Ro
U+0F7F	Mark [Mc]	VISARGA	RIGHT_POSITION	ཿ Sign Rnam Bcad
U+0F80	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_POSITION	ྀ Sign Reversed I
U+0F81	Mark [Mn]	VOWEL_DEPENDENT	TOP_AND_BOTTOM_POSITION	ཱྀ Sign Reversed Ii
U+0F82	Mark [Mn]	BINDU	TOP_POSITION	ྂ Sign Nyi Zla Naa Da
U+0F83	Mark [Mn]	BINDU	TOP_POSITION	ྃ Sign Sna Ldan
U+0F84	Mark [Mn]	VIRAMA	BOTTOM_POSITION	྄ Halanta
U+0F85	Punctuation	AVAGRAHA	null	྅ Paluta
U+0F86	Mark [Mn]	TONE_MARKER	TOP_POSITION	྆ Sign Lci Rtags
U+0F87	Mark [Mn]	TONE_MARKER	TOP_POSITION	྇ Sign Yang Rtags
U+0F88	Letter	CONSONANT_HEAD	null	ྈ Sign Lce Tsa Can
U+0F89	Letter	CONSONANT_HEAD	null	ྉ Sign Mchu Can
U+0F8A	Letter	CONSONANT_HEAD	null	ྊ Sign Gru Can Rgyings
U+0F8B	Letter	CONSONANT_HEAD	null	ྋ Sign Gru Med Rgyings
U+0F8C	Letter	CONSONANT_HEAD	null	ྌ Sign Inverted Mchu Can
U+0F8D	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྍ Subjoined Sign Lce Tsa Can
U+0F8E	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྎ Subjoined Sign Mchu Can
U+0F8F	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྏ Subjoined Sign Inverted Mchu Can
U+0F90	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྐ Subjoined Ka
U+0F91	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྑ Subjoined Kha
U+0F92	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྒ Subjoined Ga
U+0F93	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྒྷ Subjoined Gha
U+0F94	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྔ Subjoined Nga
U+0F95	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྕ Subjoined Ca
U+0F96	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྖ Subjoined Cha
U+0F97	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྗ Subjoined Ja
U+0F98	unassigned
U+0F99	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྙ Subjoined Nya
U+0F9A	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྚ Subjoined Tta
U+0F9B	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྛ Subjoined Ttha
U+0F9C	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྜ Subjoined Dda
U+0F9D	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྜྷ Subjoined Ddha
U+0F9E	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྞ Subjoined Nna
U+0F9F	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྟ Subjoined Ta
U+0FA0	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྠ Subjoined Tha
U+0FA1	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྡ Subjoined Da
U+0FA2	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྡྷ Subjoined Dha
U+0FA3	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྣ Subjoined Na
U+0FA4	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྤ Subjoined Pa
U+0FA5	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྥ Subjoined Pha
U+0FA6	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྦ Subjoined Ba
U+0FA7	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྦྷ Subjoined Bha
U+0FA8	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྨ Subjoined Ma
U+0FA9	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྩ Subjoined Tsa
U+0FAA	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྪ Subjoined Tsha
U+0FAB	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྫ Subjoined Dza
U+0FAC	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྫྷ Subjoined Dzha
U+0FAD	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྭ Subjoined Wa
U+0FAE	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྮ Subjoined Zha
U+0FAF	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྯ Subjoined Za
U+0FB0	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྰ Subjoined -A
U+0FB1	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྱ Subjoined Ya
U+0FB2	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྲ Subjoined Ra
U+0FB3	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ླ Subjoined La
U+0FB4	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྴ Subjoined Sha
U+0FB5	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྵ Subjoined Ssa
U+0FB6	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྶ Subjoined Sa
U+0FB7	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྷ Subjoined Ha
U+0FB8	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྸ Subjoined A
U+0FB9	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྐྵ Subjoined Kssa
U+0FBA	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྺ Subjoined Fixed-Form Wa
U+0FBB	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྻ Subjoined Fixed-Form Ya
U+0FBC	Mark [Mn]	CONSONANT_SUBJOINED	BOTTOM_POSITION	ྼ Subjoined Fixed-Form Ra
U+0FBD	unassigned
U+0FBE	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	྾ Ku Ru Kha
U+0FBF	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	྿ Ku Ru Kha Bzhi Mig Can
U+0FC0	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿀ Cantillation Sign Heavy Beat
U+0FC1	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿁ Cantillation Sign Light Beat
U+0FC2	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿂ Cantillation Sign Cang Te-U
U+0FC3	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿃ Cantillation Sign Sbub -Chal
U+0FC4	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿄ Symbol Dril Bu
U+0FC5	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿅ Symbol Rdo Rje
U+0FC6	Mark [Mn]	SYLLABLE_MODIFIER	BOTTOM_POSITION	࿆ Symbol Padma Gdan
U+0FC7	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿇ Symbol Rdo Rje Rgya Gram
U+0FC8	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿈ Symbol Phur Pa
U+0FC9	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿉ Symbol Nor Bu
U+0FCA	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿊ Symbol Nor Bu Nyis -Khyil
U+0FCB	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿋ Symbol Nor Bu Gsum -Khyil
U+0FCC	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿌ Symbol Nor Bu Bzhi -Khyil
U+0FCD	unassigned
U+0FCE	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿎ Sign Rdel Nag Rdel Dkar
U+0FCF	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿏ Sign Rdel Nag Gsum
U+0FD0	Punctuation	null	null	࿐ Bska- Shog Gi Mgo Rgyan
U+0FD1	Punctuation	null	null	࿑ Mnyam Yig Gi Mgo Rgyan
U+0FD2	Punctuation	null	null	࿒ Nyis Tsheg
U+0FD3	Punctuation	null	null	࿓ Initial Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Mdun
U+0FD4	Punctuation	null	null	࿔ Closing Brda Rnying Yig Mgo Sgab
U+0FD5	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿕ Right-Facing Svasti Sign
U+0FD6	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿖ Left-Facing Svasti Sign
U+0FD7	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿗ Right-Facing Svasti Sign With Dots
U+0FD8	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	࿘ Left-Facing Svasti Sign With Dots
U+0FD9	Punctuation	null	null	࿙ Leading Mchan Rtags
U+0FDA	Punctuation	null	null	࿚ Trailing Mchan Rtags
U+0FDB	unassigned
U+0FDC	unassigned
U+0FDD	unassigned
U+0FDE	unassigned
U+0FDF	unassigned

Miscellaneous character table

Other important characters that may be encountered when shaping runs of Tibetan text include the dotted-circle placeholder (U+25CC), the zero-width joiner (U+200D) and zero-width non-joiner (U+200C), and the no-break space (U+00A0).

The dotted-circle placeholder is frequently used when displaying a dependent vowel (matra) or a combining mark in isolation. Real-world text syllables may also use other characters, such as hyphens or dashes, in a similar placeholder fashion; shaping engines should cope with this situation gracefully.

Codepoint	Unicode category	Shaping class	Mark-placement subclass	Glyph
U+00A0	Separator	PLACEHOLDER	null	No-break space
U+200C	Other	NON_JOINER	null	‌ Zero-width non-joiner
U+200D	Other	JOINER	null	‍ Zero-width joiner
U+25CC	Symbol	DOTTED_CIRCLE	null	◌ Dotted circle
U+2638	Symbol	SYMBOL	null	☸ Wheel of Dharma

The zero-width joiner (ZWJ) is primarily used to prevent the formation of a conjunct from a "consonant,Halant,consonant" sequence. The sequence "consonant,Halant,ZWJ,consonant" blocks the formation of a conjunct between the two consonants.

Note, however, that the "consonant,Halant" subsequence in the above example may still trigger a half-forms feature. To prevent the application of the half-forms feature in addition to preventing the conjunct, the zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ) must be used instead. The sequence "consonant,Halant,ZWNJ,consonant" should produce the first consonant in its standard form, followed by an explicit "Halant".

A secondary usage of the zero-width joiner is to prevent the formation of "Reph". An initial "Ra,Halant,ZWJ" sequence should not produce a "Reph", where an initial "Ra,Halant" sequence without the zero-width joiner otherwise would.

The no-break space (NBSP) is primarily used to display those codepoints that are defined as non-spacing (marks, dependent vowels (matras), below-base consonant forms, and post-base consonant forms) in an isolated context, as an alternative to displaying them superimposed on the dotted-circle placeholder. These sequences will match "NBSP,ZWJ,Halant,consonant", "NBSP,mark", or "NBSP,matra".