U+115AC "ð‘–¬" Siddham Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–¬
U+115AC "ð‘–¬" Siddham Letter Ssa is a glyph from the Siddham script, an abugida historically used in East Asia for writing Sanskrit, particularly in Buddhist contexts. This character represents the sound "ssa," a retroflex sibilant consonant distinct from the more common dental or palatal s sounds. Siddham script, often found in ancient manuscripts and temple inscriptions, was transmitted from India to China, Korea, and Japan, where it remains used decoratively in Shingon Buddhist ritual and calligraphy. The letter Ssa forms part of the script's consonant inventory, contributing to the precise phonetic transcription of mantras and sacred texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115AC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Ssa |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddac |