U+115BF "ð‘–¿" Siddham Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘–¿
U+115BF "ð‘–¿" Siddham Sign Virama is a combining mark used in the Siddham script, an ancient writing system historically employed for Buddhist texts in East Asia, particularly in Japan and China. This sign, known as a virama, serves to cancel the inherent vowel of a consonant letter, thereby creating a conjunct or a consonant cluster by linking the preceding consonant to a following one, or by marking a dead consonant at the end of a word. Scripturally, it is invisible on its own and is positioned above or to the right of the base character, and it plays a crucial role in accurately representing the phonetic structure of liturgical languages like Sanskrit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115BF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Sign Virama |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddbf |