U+11598 "๐" Siddham Letter Tta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11598 "๐" Siddham Letter Tta is a glyph representing the retroflex consonant "แนญa" in the Siddham script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in East Asia for writing Sanskrit, particularly in Buddhist texts and mantra inscriptions. This character belongs to the Siddham block of Unicode, which was added to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this script, once prevalent in Japan and China for esoteric Buddhist practices. The letter itself features a distinct curved and angular form typical of Siddham calligraphy, and it plays a role in encoding the phonetic nuances of retroflex sounds found in Sanskrit and related languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11598 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Tta |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011598 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd98 |