U+1159F "ð‘–Ÿ" Siddham Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–Ÿ
U+1159F "ð‘–Ÿ" Siddham Letter Da is a character from the Siddham script, an ancient abugida historically used in East Asia for writing Sanskrit and mantra texts, particularly within Esoteric Buddhism. This specific grapheme represents the consonant sound "da" and is part of a larger syllabary that was transmitted along the Silk Road to China and Japan, where it was employed by monks for transcribing sacred Buddhist scriptures and ritual inscriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and practitioners can digitally preserve and reproduce these historical texts with accurate orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1159F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Da |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001159F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd9f |