U+11580 "ð‘–€" Siddham Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–€
U+11580 "ð‘–€" Siddham Letter A is the first letter of the Siddham script, an ancient abugida historically used in East Asia for writing Buddhist texts in Sanskrit, particularly within esoteric traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. This character represents the inherent vowel 'a' and serves as a foundational glyph from which other syllabic forms are derived through the addition of diacritical marks. Siddham characters like this one were influential in the development of Japanese calligraphy and mantra chanting, often appearing in ritual contexts due to their sacred associations with Buddhist liturgy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11580 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter A |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011580 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd80 |