TIBETAN SUBJOINED LETTER LA·U+0FB3

Character Information

Code Point
U+0FB3
HEX
0FB3
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Nonspacing Mark

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E0 BE B3
11100000 10111110 10110011
UTF16 (big Endian)
0F B3
00001111 10110011
UTF16 (little Endian)
B3 0F
10110011 00001111
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 0F B3
00000000 00000000 00001111 10110011
UTF32 (little Endian)
B3 0F 00 00
10110011 00001111 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ླ
URI Encoded
%E0%BE%B3

Description

The Unicode character U+0FB3, known as "TIBETAN SUBJOINED LETTER LA," plays a crucial role in the Tibetan language's written form. As part of the Tibetan script, it is primarily used in digital text to represent the sound 'a.' This specific letter is a subjoined variant of the base form 'A,' indicating that it has been combined with a following character. The unique visual appearance of U+0FB3 adds richness and depth to written Tibetan, which is an important aspect of the cultural identity for millions of Tibetan speakers worldwide.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 4019 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+0FB3. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+0FB3 to binary: 00001111 10110011. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100000 10111110 10110011