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.

Block

Siddham[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+1158x𑖀𑖁𑖂𑖃𑖄𑖅𑖆𑖇𑖈𑖉𑖊𑖋𑖌𑖍𑖎𑖏
U+1159x𑖐𑖑𑖒𑖓𑖔𑖕𑖖𑖗𑖘𑖙𑖚𑖛𑖜𑖝𑖞𑖟
U+115Ax𑖠𑖡𑖢𑖣𑖤𑖥𑖦𑖧𑖨𑖩𑖪𑖫𑖬𑖭𑖮𑖯
U+115Bx𑖰𑖱𑖲𑖳𑖴𑖵𑖸𑖹𑖺𑖻𑖼𑖽𑖾𑖿
U+115Cx𑗀𑗁𑗂𑗃𑗄𑗅𑗆𑗇𑗈𑗉𑗊𑗋𑗌𑗍𑗎𑗏
U+115Dx𑗐𑗑𑗒𑗓𑗔𑗕𑗖𑗗𑗘𑗙𑗚𑗛𑗜𑗝
U+115Ex
U+115Fx
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Siddham block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+11580..115B5, 115B8..115C972Everson, Michael (1999-02-11), Exploratory code chart for Siddham
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "IX: SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646
Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2012-06-28), Comments on naming the "Siddham" encoding
Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2012-07-11), Comments on the name of the "Siddham" script
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "I. SIDDHAM", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-25), Recommendation against encoding ornamental punctuation marks for Siddham
Eidson, Eijun; Harada-Eidson, Shoken (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
Yoritomi, Honkō (2012-07-25), Comments of support for the adoption of "Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646"
Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01), Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script
Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "D.6.2", UTC #132 Minutes
Suzuki, Toshiya (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
Eidson, Eijun (2012-11-02), Feedback on Siddham proposal (WG2 N4294)
Siddham ad hoc report, 2013-06-12
Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C7", UTC #136 Minutes, Change the names of two Siddham punctuation marks
8.0U+115CA..115D714Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-30), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Siddham in ISO/IEC 10646
Anderson, Deborah (2012-10-24), Additional Information on Siddham Section Marks (N4336)
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "15", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Eidson, Bill (2013-01-28), Additional information on Siddham Section marks
Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), "D.4", UTC #134 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2013-06-11), Name changes for Siddham Section marks
Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C15", UTC #136 Minutes, Approve the revised repertoire of 14 Siddham section marks ...
, )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..115DD6Kawabata, Taichi; Suzuki, Toshiya; Nagasaki, Kiyonori; Shimoda, Masahiro (2013-06-11), Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
Pandey, Anshuman (2013-06-15), Additional Siddham Variants
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Glass, Andrew (2013-10-10), Comments on N4407R Proposal to Encode Variants for Siddham Script
Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), A Practical Approach to Encoding Siddham Variants
Sharma, Shriramana (2013-10-30), Response to L2/13-195 on Siddham
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "5", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
, , , )Lunde, Ken (2013-12-04), 2013-11-22 Siddham Script (梵字) Meeting @ Tokyo, JAPAN, Earth
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "20", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
, )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
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
Glass, Andrew (2014-02-04), Concerns about encoding variants of Matras in Siddham
Toshiya, Suzuki (2014-02-24), Brief Summary of the Discussion about Shape-Based Separation of Siddham Vowel Sign U/UU
Anderson, Deborah (2014-02-24), Siddham Ad Hoc Report
Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C11, 139-C12", UTC #139 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.01e, M62.01j", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA