Wylie cheat sheet
What to type for each letter. The same on a Mac and on Windows, except where noted.
Download the cheat sheet (PDF) Practise it
The thirty letters
- ཀka
- ཁkha
- གga
- ངnga
- ཅca
- ཆcha
- ཇja
- ཉnya
- ཏta
- ཐtha
- དda
- ནna
- པpa
- ཕpha
- བba
- མma
- ཙtsa
- ཚtsha
- ཛdza
- ཝwa
- ཞzha
- ཟza
- འ'a
- ཡya
- རra
- ལla
- ཤsha
- སsa
- ཧha
- ཨa
Vowels
- ཀིki
- ཀུku
- ཀེke
- ཀོko
A vowel at the start of a syllable sits on ཨ by itself: type e ma for ཨེ་མ.
Stacks
Letters stack by themselves when Tibetan stacks them: superscribed r, l and s, and subscribed y, r, l and w.
- རྐrka
- ལྟlta
- སྣsna
- ཀྱkya
- ཀྲkra
- ཀླkla
- ཀྭkwa
- རྒྱrgya
- སྐྲskra
When Wylie needs telling
| g.yas | གཡས | keeps two letters side by side |
| pad+ma | པདྨ | stacks letters that would not stack by themselves |
| kA | ཀཱ | a long vowel (also aa) |
| oM | ཨོཾ | anusvara |
| aH | ཨཿ | visarga |
| space | ་ | the dot between syllables |
| / | ། | shad, at the end of a phrase |
| x | an ordinary space, on Windows (also _) |
On a Mac, the + is Shift and the key just left of Delete - on an English keyboard, the + key itself.
From the Tibetan Toolbox - tibetantoolbox.org/type-tibetan/cheat-sheet/
Every combination the Windows keyboard accepts (on GitHub, opens another site)
Guide and videos by Frère Jérémy, from the classical Tibetan course organised by Padmakara and led by Wulstan Fletcher.