U+11597 "𑖗" Siddham Letter Nya Unicode Character

U+11597 "𑖗" Siddham Letter Nya is a specific glyph from the Siddham script, an alphasyllabary historically used to write Sanskrit and other languages in East Asia, particularly within esoteric Buddhist traditions. This character represents the palatal nasal consonant sound "nya" and serves as the twenty-fifth letter in the Siddham syllabary. Siddham was widely employed for copying Buddhist sutras and mantras in medieval China, Japan, and Korea, and while it is no longer used in everyday writing, it remains significant in Shingon and Tendai Buddhist practices for calligraphy and ritualistic inscriptions.