U+1158B "𑖋" Siddham Letter Ai Unicode Character

U+1158B "𑖋" Siddham Letter Ai is a character used in the Siddham script, a historical abugida traditionally employed for writing Sanskrit and for religious texts in East Asian Buddhism, particularly in Japan for mantra and sutra transcriptions. This specific letter represents the vowel sound "ai," functioning as a syllabic unit in the script's inventory of independent vowel characters. Its form is distinctively complex, with curved and hooked strokes that reflect the aesthetic conventions of Siddham calligraphy. The character was encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, alongside other Siddham letters, to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.