U+11587 "๐" Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+11587 "๐" Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr is a character from the Siddham script, an ancient Indian writing system historically used for writing Sanskrit and Buddhist texts, particularly in East Asia. This specific letter represents a vocalic 'r' sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in Sanskrit phonology, equivalent to the Devanagari character 'เค'. In Siddham, the glyph is visually distinct, often appearing as a rounded form with a curl or hook, and it was employed primarily in religious and scholarly manuscripts to transcribe Sanskrit mantras and liturgical phrases, preserving precise phonetic values for ritual recitation.
General Properties
Code Point
U+11587
Name
Siddham Letter Vocalic Rr
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𑖇
HTML Hex Encoding
𑖇
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD805 0xDD87
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00011587
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud805\udd87
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Siddham