U+1158B "ð‘–‹" Siddham Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1158B "ð‘–‹" Siddham Letter Ai is a character used in the Siddham script, a historical abugida traditionally employed for writing Sanskrit and for religious texts in East Asian Buddhism, particularly in Japan for mantra and sutra transcriptions. This specific letter represents the vowel sound "ai," functioning as a syllabic unit in the script's inventory of independent vowel characters. Its form is distinctively complex, with curved and hooked strokes that reflect the aesthetic conventions of Siddham calligraphy. The character was encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, alongside other Siddham letters, to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1158B |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Ai |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001158B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd8b |