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Dzongkha Alphabet (Tibetan)

The letters and characters of Dzongkha written in the Tibetan script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 418,555 people read or write it across 2 countries.

9Fonts cover the standard set
58Standard characters
418,555People
2Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Dzongkha — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D༼U+0F3C༽U+0F3D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021༄U+0F04༅U+0F05༆U+0F06༈U+0F08༉U+0F09༊U+0F0A࿐U+0FD0࿑U+0FD1༒U+0F12࿒U+0FD2࿓U+0FD3࿔U+0FD4༶U+0F36྾U+0FBE྿U+0FBF༌U+0F0C།U+0F0D༎U+0F0E༏U+0F0F༐U+0F10༑U+0F11༔U+0F14༴U+0F34

Where Dzongkha (Tibetan) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Dzongkha in the Tibetan script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Bhutan 415,737 47%
India 2,818 0%

Dzongkha (Tibetan) — facts

Font coverage 9 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 58 standard characters; 7 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Tibetan
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Tibetan, General Punctuation
People About 418,555 people read or write Dzongkha in the Tibetan script — mostly in Bhutan, India.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.