What ད means
It writes a consonant in a Tibetan syllable. Wylie spells it da; Kha varieties use a t with a puff of air, while Ga varieties use an unaspirated t or d.
The Tibetan script took shape in the seventh century, modeled on writing systems from India for Buddhist texts and Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. Some of the earliest surviving records are Lhasa stone inscriptions from the eighth century. In stacks, ྡ is the subjoined form of ད, set below another consonant.
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Who writes ད
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Alphabet
Questions people ask
1Why does ད show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ད
- Also called
- da
- Search it as
- d · Wylie · Tibetan keyboard · subjoined da
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
དCSS
\0F51Tibetan input
How do I type ད? On Tibetan Direct Input, press
d. Wylie and Extended Wylie layouts use Latin-letter input; keys vary by layout.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ད
HTML hex
ད
CSS content
content: "\0F51";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%BD%91
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.