U+0A03 "ਃ" Gurmukhi Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਃ
U+0A03 "ਃ" Gurmukhi Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Gurmukhi script, primarily for writing Sanskrit or Pali loanwords within Punjabi texts. It represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound, similar to an "h" sound, and appears as two small circles stacked vertically above the consonant it modifies, often indicating a final aspiration or a breathy release in transliterated sacred or scholarly vocabulary. Unlike some other scripts that use a visarga, this Gurmukhi sign is typically found in religious and classical contexts, such as in the Guru Granth Sahib, where it helps preserve the precise pronunciation of borrowed terms rather than being a common feature in everyday Punjabi writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A03 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Sign Visarga |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| 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 0xA8 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a03 |