The present disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for downlink control information format for indication of transmission configuration indication state. A user equipment may receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI); determining whether the DCI is used for beam indication with or without downlink assignment. The UE also may apply transmission configuration indication (TCI) states based on TCI codepoints in a TCI field of the DCI, when the DCI is used for beam indication. The base station may generate the DCI with information indicating whether the DCI is intended for beam indication with or without downlink assignment, in which the DCI includes the TCI codepoints to apply the TCI states at the UE when the information in the DCI indicates that the DCI is intended for beam indication. The base station may transmit, to the UE, the DCI.