U+115BF "𑖿" Siddham Sign Virama Unicode Character

U+115BF "𑖿" 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.