Siddham (Unicode block)

Siddham
Range	U+11580..U+115FF (128 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Siddham
Major alphabets	Siddham
Assigned	92 code points
Unused	36 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	72 (+72)
8.0 (2015)	92 (+20)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Siddham is a Unicode block containing characters for the historical, Brahmi-derived Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit between the years c. 550 – c. 1200.^[3]

Block

Siddham^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1158x

𑖀

𑖁

𑖂

𑖃

𑖄

𑖅

𑖆

𑖇

𑖈

𑖉

𑖊

𑖋

𑖌

𑖍

𑖎

𑖏

U+1159x

𑖐

𑖑

𑖒

𑖓

𑖔

𑖕

𑖖

𑖗

𑖘

𑖙

𑖚

𑖛

𑖜

𑖝

𑖞

𑖟

U+115Ax

𑖠

𑖡

𑖢

𑖣

𑖤

𑖥

𑖦

𑖧

𑖨

𑖩

𑖪

𑖫

𑖬

𑖭

𑖮

𑖯

U+115Bx

𑖰

𑖱

𑖲

𑖳

𑖴

𑖵

𑖸

𑖹

𑖺

𑖻

𑖼

𑖽

𑖾

𑖿

U+115Cx

𑗀

𑗁

𑗂

𑗃

𑗄

𑗅

𑗆

𑗇

𑗈

𑗉

𑗊

𑗋

𑗌

𑗍

𑗎

𑗏

U+115Dx

𑗐

𑗑

𑗒

𑗓

𑗔

𑗕

𑗖

𑗗

𑗘

𑗙

𑗚

𑗛

𑗜

𑗝

U+115Ex

U+115Fx

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Siddham block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+11580..115B5, 115B8..115C9	72	L2/99-065		Everson, Michael (1999-02-11), Exploratory code chart for Siddham
			L2/12-031		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "IX: SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-011R	N4185	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/12-184		Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
			L2/12-221	N4506	Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2012-06-28), Comments on naming the "Siddham" encoding
			L2/12-237	N4507	Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2012-07-11), Comments on the name of the "Siddham" script
			L2/12-267		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "I. SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-274		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-25), Recommendation against encoding ornamental punctuation marks for Siddham
			L2/12-279		Eidson, Eijun; Harada-Eidson, Shoken (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
			L2/12-281		Yoritomi, Honkō (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of "Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646"
			L2/12-277		Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
			L2/12-234R	N4294	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01), Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
			L2/12-239		Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "D.6.2", UTC #132 Minutes
			L2/12-367	N4361	Suzuki, Toshiya (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
			L2/12-369	N4369	Eidson, Eijun (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
				N4460	Siddham ad hoc report, 2013-06-12
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C7", UTC #136 Minutes, Change the names of two Siddham punctuation marks
8.0	U+115CA..115D7	14	L2/12-323	N4336	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-30), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/12-372	N4378	Anderson, Deborah (2012-10-24), Additional Information on Siddham Section Marks (N4336)
			L2/13-028		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "15", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-033R	N4391	Eidson, Bill (2013-01-28), Additional information on Siddham Section marks
			L2/13-011		Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), "D.4", UTC #134 Minutes
			L2/13-156	N4457	Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2013-06-11), Name changes for Siddham Section marks
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C15", UTC #136 Minutes, Approve the revised repertoire of 14 Siddham section marks ...
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "Resolution M61.01 and M61.09 item a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
	U+115D8..115DD	6	L2/13-110	N4407R	Kawabata, Taichi; Suzuki, Toshiya; Nagasaki, Kiyonori; Shimoda, Masahiro (2013-06-11), Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
			L2/13-136	N4468	Pandey, Anshuman (2013-06-15), Additional Siddham Variants
			L2/13-165		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-189	N4486	Glass, Andrew (2013-10-10), Comments on N4407R Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
			L2/13-195	N4490	Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), A Practical Approach to Encoding Siddham Variants
			L2/13-208		Sharma, Shriramana (2013-10-30), Response to L2/13-195 on Siddham
			L2/13-210		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "5", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
			L2/13-233 (html, Attach 1, Attach 2, Attach 3)	N4523	Lunde, Ken (2013-12-04), 2013-11-22 Siddham Script (梵字) Meeting @ Tokyo, JAPAN, Earth
			L2/14-053		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "20", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "Resolution M61.09 item a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
			L2/14-055		Anderson, Deborah; Collins, Lee; Eidson, Bill; Glass, Andrew; Harada, Shoken; Kawabata, Taichi; Lunde, Ken; Motoyama, Koju; Nagasaki, Kiyonori; Pandey, Anshuman; Suignard, Michel; Suzuki, Toshiya; Yamamoto, Taro (2014-02-04), Supplementary Documents for Proposal of Variants for Siddham Script
			L2/14-062		Glass, Andrew (2014-02-04), Concerns about encoding variants of Matras in Siddham
				N4557	Toshiya, Suzuki (2014-02-24), Brief Summary of the Discussion about Shape-Based Separation of Siddham Vowel Sign U/UU
			L2/14-074	N4560	Anderson, Deborah (2014-02-24), Siddham Ad Hoc Report
			L2/14-100		Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C11, 139-C12", UTC #139 Minutes
				N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.01e, M62.01j", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01). "N4294: Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.