🔠Alphabet (syllabary)

To learn the sounds of the alphabet or syllabary and how to combine them into syllable clusters, visit the Video Lessons page.

The images below show the thirty root letters in four different styles:

• u-chan, the most common version for printing,

• u-med, taught to young children in central Tibet, but not so popular everywhere else,

• u-med short forms and gyuk-yik are more typical styles for quick, cursive-style writing. 

I find it less visually distracting, when learning, to see the individual characters without the ཚེག་ or "dot"-like syllable-end marker: