What 𑖤 means
It gives a voiced b its short a by default. Siddham consonants keep that vowel unless a vowel sign changes it. A virama, the mark that removes the default vowel, lets consonants join.
Around the 5th century CE, Siddham developed from Gupta writing, part of the older Brahmi family. Later Nāgarī writing also grew within that family. Siddham wrote Sanskrit, including Buddhist texts that traveled east.
As of 2026, the Japanese Buddhist schools Shingon and Tendai preserve Siddham, called Bonji in Japanese, for mantras (ritual phrases), sutras (Buddhist texts) and ceremonies.
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Who writes 𑖤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𑖤 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.
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How to type or find 𑖤
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- Siddham ba · Siddham b · Bonji ba · Siddham ba sound · type Siddham ba
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𑖤\115A4b to produce 𑖤. If it appears as a box, the selected font may lack Siddham support; use a font that supports it, such as Noto Sans Siddham.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.