U+115CC "𑗌" Siddham Section Mark with Rays and Dotted Crescents Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑗌
U+115CC "𑗌" Siddham Section Mark with Rays and Dotted Crescents is a punctuation mark used in the Siddham script, an ancient writing system primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and mantra texts in East Asian Buddhism. This ornate symbol functions as a textual divider, marking the end of a section or chapter with distinctive decorative elements: a central circle or sun motif with radiating rays above and dotted crescent shapes below. It belongs to the Siddham block of Unicode and is often found in manuscript traditions from medieval India, China, and Japan, where it served both a practical and aesthetic role in structuring liturgical or philosophical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+115CC |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Siddham Section Mark with Rays and Dotted Crescents |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑗌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑗌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x97 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDDCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000115CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\uddcc |