U+115BA "ð‘–º" Siddham Vowel Sign O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–º
U+115BA "ð‘–º" Siddham Vowel Sign O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Siddham script, an ancient Indian writing system historically employed for writing Sanskrit and Buddhist texts, particularly in East Asia. This vowel sign modifies a consonant character to indicate the long vowel sound "o", functioning as a dependent vowel that is placed above or around the base consonant letter. It is part of the Siddham block in Unicode, which was added to support the preservation and digital representation of this important historical script used in temples, manuscripts, and calligraphy, especially within Japanese Shingon Buddhist traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115BA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Vowel Sign O |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ð‘–¸" U+115B8 Siddham Vowel Sign E "ð‘–¯" U+115AF Siddham Vowel Sign Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddba |