U+115A8 "ð‘–¨" Siddham Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–¨
U+115A8 "ð‘–¨" Siddham Letter Ra is a glyph from the Siddham script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in East Asia to write Sanskrit texts, particularly within esoteric Buddhist traditions. This character represents the consonant "Ra" and belongs to the Siddham block of Unicode, which was added to support the digital preservation and modern typesetting of this historical script. In Siddham, the letter Ra functions as a phonetic building block for syllables and mantras, often appearing in ritual manuscripts and temple inscriptions across Japan, China, and Korea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115A8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Ra |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udda8 |