What 𑖕 means
It writes the Sanskrit consonant transliterated as ja.
Siddhamātrikā took shape in North India from Gupta-era forms of Brāhmī, an older South Asian script tradition, between the 6th and 10th centuries. It wrote Sanskrit, including Buddhist texts; related traditions include Śāradā, Nāgarī, and eastern Indian scripts.
Siddham travelled east with Buddhism. In Japanese bonji, a character may mark a syllable or represent a deity. Unicode 17.0.0 describes surviving use as mainly ceremonial, especially in esoteric Buddhism; this letter alone has no universal mystical meaning.
It signals specialist script study or Buddhist ritual, not casual chat.
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Questions people ask
1Why does this letter look different across fonts?
Siddham has regional and historical forms, and fonts draw them differently; the character identifies the letter, not one fixed outline.
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- Siddham ja · Sanskrit ja · bonji · Siddhamātrikā · Siddham virama · Siddham font
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𑖕\11595Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.