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 | |
|---|---|
| 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] | |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe 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 | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ 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.