What ౷ means
Siddhirastu means “may there be success.” It blesses the start of a Telugu text rather than spelling a word.
A 1289 CE example appears on the Khandavalli plates, a set of inscribed records. Related opening signs occur in Kannada, Devanagari, Sharada, and Tibetan writing.
In a 2026 Telugu discussion, some readers linked it with old Telugu books; others did not recognize it. Clockwise, anticlockwise, and multi-turn drawings are variants of the same sign.
Formal and auspicious; it marks a text’s opening.
In chat, explain the opening blessing; it is not a self-explanatory reaction.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ౷
- Also called
- siddhirastu · Siddham symbol
- Search it as
- siddham
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
౷\0C77Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.