01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Siddham Script
Sanskrit script developed in India in the 6th century, transmitted to China, Japan, and Korea with Buddhism.
Sanskrit script developed in India in the 6th century, transmitted to China, Japan, and Korea with Buddhism. Still actively used in Japanese Buddhist calligraphy. Korea's "Beonja" (梵字) is this same script. Used in Shingon and Tendai rituals to write sacred mantras (dharani), it is also carved on tombstones in Japan today.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+1D800–U+1DAAF
Total signs755
In Unicode92
Only 92 of 755 total signs are in Unicode — 663 remain unencoded.
Unicode Blocks
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH