What དྷ means
Use a Tibetan keyboard with དྷ or Unicode hex entry with 0F52.
If your Tibetan layout has an extended-letter set, select it there. With Unicode hex entry, enter 0F52 and commit it; the shortcut varies by system and app.
If the glyph is missing or changes shape, check whether your Tibetan font supports it.
What does Tibetan dha do?
It represents Sanskrit dha in Tibetan-script transcription.
Tibetan writing took shape alongside the empire's rapid expansion in the mid-seventh century. Its model was a script from South Asia, though the precise regional source remains uncertain. Traditional Tibetan histories credit a minister named Tönmi Sambhota with devising the script.
The extended Tibetan set includes consonants for transcribing languages beyond Tibetan, chiefly Sanskrit and Chinese. དྷ is not among the consonants used in ordinary Tibetan words; it preserves the voiced, breathy dha of Sanskrit, including in mantras, or short sacred phrases.
What does Tibetan dha mean by itself?
A lone དྷ is a consonant, not a complete word.
Tibetan consonants and vowels combine into syllables; the syllable in context carries the word's reading and meaning.
A specialist consonant for Sanskrit transcription in Tibetan writing.
A lone དྷ gives a consonant sound, not a whole word.
Who writes དྷ
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Don't confuse it with
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དྷ Tibetan da followed by a smaller, lower ha; normalization can represent དྷ as this equivalent sequence.
ཌྷ The Sanskrit sound made with the tongue curled farther back; དྷ represents the dha made at the teeth.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does དྷ 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 དྷ
- Also called
- dha
- Search it as
- tibetan dha · dha letter · tibetan dh · sanskrit dha tibetan
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
དྷ\0F52Codes and encoding1 code points
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