U+115BC "ð‘–¼" Siddham Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–¼
U+115BC "ð‘–¼" Siddham Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Siddham script, an ancient abugida primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and Buddhist texts in East Asia, especially within Japanese esoteric Buddhist traditions. This sign represents a nasalization or an anusvara-like sound, specifically indicating a nasalized vowel or a homorganic nasal, and it visually combines a dot (bindu) with a crescent (chandra) shape, often written above or attached to a consonant character. In transliteration, it corresponds to a nasalized pronunciation, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode the intricate phonetic details of Siddham manuscript traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115BC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddbc |