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siddham double danda

Siddham Double Danda

𑗃 closes a paragraph or larger text unit in Siddham. The script was used for Buddhist texts in Sanskrit across China, Korea, and Japan; Japanese Shingon and Tendai traditions use it in ritual writing.

Text symbol
Also called
double danda · dvidaṇḍa · dvi-daṇḍa
Search it as
dvidanda · dvi danda · Siddham punctuation · Sanskrit punctuation · bonji punctuation
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What 𑗃 means

In Siddham punctuation, the double danda closes a paragraph or other large text unit. Its single counterpart, 𑗂, ends sentences and shorter sections, so the pair marks different scales of division.

Siddham belongs to the Brahmi family, a group of scripts that developed in India, and was used to write Buddhist texts in Sanskrit in China, Japan, and Korea. Hōryū-ji palm-leaf manuscripts, dated c. 6th–8th century, reached Japan from China in 609. Siddham is most closely related to Sharada, a script from Kashmir.

Formal punctuation for Siddham text boundaries.

Don't confuse it with

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॥
Devanagari Double Danda
॥ is Devanagari’s double danda and has a similar job, but it is a different character from Siddham 𑗃.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𑗃 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 𑗃

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 115C3, then Alt+X to get 𑗃.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “siddham double danda”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 115c3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𑗃
CSS
\115C3
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𑗃
HTML hex
𑗃
CSS content
content: "\115C3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%91%97%83
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Indian scripts3,440 symbols

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