U+0983 "ঃ" Bengali Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ঃ
U+0983 "ঃ" Bengali Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Bengali script to represent the visarga, a phoneme that in Sanskrit and classical Indic languages produces a voiceless breathy sound after a vowel, often romanized as "ḥ". In modern Bengali, this character is primarily encountered in Sanskrit loanwords and in transliterations of sacred or scholarly texts, where it indicates a final aspiration. It appears after the last letter of a word or syllable and is typed alone, not combined with a consonant, serving as a distinct grapheme in the Bengali Unicode block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0983 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Sign Visarga |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ঃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ঃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0983 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000983 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0983 |