U+11587 "๐" Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11587 "๐" Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr is a character from the Siddham script, an ancient Indian writing system historically used for writing Sanskrit and Buddhist texts, particularly in East Asia. This specific letter represents a vocalic 'r' sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in Sanskrit phonology, equivalent to the Devanagari character 'เค'. In Siddham, the glyph is visually distinct, often appearing as a rounded form with a curl or hook, and it was employed primarily in religious and scholarly manuscripts to transcribe Sanskrit mantras and liturgical phrases, preserving precise phonetic values for ritual recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11587 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011587 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd87 |