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Siddham (Unicode block)

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Siddham
RangeU+11580..U+115FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsSiddham
Major alphabetsSiddham
Assigned92 code points
Unused36 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[edit]

Siddham[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 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 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History[edit]

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
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References[edit]

  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.