U+115AF "𑖯" Siddham Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑖯
U+115AF "𑖯" Siddham Vowel Sign Aa is a combining vowel mark used in the Siddham script, an historical abugida primarily employed for writing Buddhist texts in East Asia, particularly in Japan, where it is known as Shittan or Bonji. This specific sign modifies a consonant to represent the long vowel "ā" (as in "father"), functioning as a diacritic that is attached to the base consonant character. As part of the Siddham block in Unicode, it aids in the accurate digital preservation and rendering of classical Buddhist manuscripts and ritual inscriptions, bridging ancient calligraphy with modern text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115AF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Vowel Sign Aa |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddaf |