Siddham (Unicode block)

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]

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]

Block

Siddham[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+11580..115B5, 115B8..115C972L2/99-065Everson, Michael (1999-02-11), Exploratory code chart for Siddham
L2/12-031Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "IX: SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-011RN4185Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-184Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
L2/12-221N4506Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2012-06-28), Comments on naming the "Siddham" encoding
L2/12-237N4507Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2012-07-11), Comments on the name of the "Siddham" script
L2/12-267Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "I. SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-274Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-25), Recommendation against encoding ornamental punctuation marks for Siddham
L2/12-279Eidson, Eijun; Harada-Eidson, Shoken (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
L2/12-281Yoritomi, Honkō (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of "Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646"
L2/12-277Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
L2/12-234RN4294Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01), Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
L2/12-239Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "D.6.2", UTC #132 Minutes
L2/12-367N4361Suzuki, Toshiya (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
L2/12-369N4369Eidson, Eijun (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
N4460Siddham ad hoc report, 2013-06-12
L2/13-132Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C7", UTC #136 Minutes, Change the names of two Siddham punctuation marks
8.0U+115CA..115D714L2/12-323N4336Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-30), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-372N4378Anderson, Deborah (2012-10-24), Additional Information on Siddham Section Marks (N4336)
L2/13-028Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "15", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-033RN4391Eidson, Bill (2013-01-28), Additional information on Siddham Section marks
L2/13-011Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), "D.4", UTC #134 Minutes
L2/13-156N4457Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2013-06-11), Name changes for Siddham Section marks
L2/13-132Moore, 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..115DD6L2/13-110N4407RKawabata, Taichi; Suzuki, Toshiya; Nagasaki, Kiyonori; Shimoda, Masahiro (2013-06-11), Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
L2/13-136N4468Pandey, Anshuman (2013-06-15), Additional Siddham Variants
L2/13-165Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-189N4486Glass, Andrew (2013-10-10), Comments on N4407R Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
L2/13-195N4490Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), A Practical Approach to Encoding Siddham Variants
L2/13-208Sharma, Shriramana (2013-10-30), Response to L2/13-195 on Siddham
L2/13-210Anderson, 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)N4523Lunde, Ken (2013-12-04), 2013-11-22 Siddham Script (梵字) Meeting @ Tokyo, JAPAN, Earth
L2/14-053Anderson, 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
L2/14-055Anderson, 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
L2/14-062Glass, Andrew (2014-02-04), Concerns about encoding variants of Matras in Siddham
N4557Toshiya, Suzuki (2014-02-24), Brief Summary of the Discussion about Shape-Based Separation of Siddham Vowel Sign U/UU
L2/14-074N4560Anderson, Deborah (2014-02-24), Siddham Ad Hoc Report
L2/14-100Moore, 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

  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.
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