U+11586 "ð‘–†" Siddham Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11586 "ð‘–†" Siddham Letter Vocalic R is a glyph in the Siddham script, historically used for writing Sanskrit and Buddhist texts in East Asia, representing a syllabic vocalic R sound. This letter, which functions as a vowel rather than a consonant, is a distinct character within the Siddham block of Unicode, preserving an ancient linguistic feature that scripts like Devanagari also encode. Its inclusion in digital standards helps maintain access to historical manuscripts and religious inscriptions where such precise phonetic notation was essential.

General Properties

Code Point U+11586
Version Added 7.0
Name Siddham Letter Vocalic R
Block Siddham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑖆
HTML Hex Encoding 𑖆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDD86
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011586
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\udd86

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Siddham
Script Extensions Siddham
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter