U+0B03 "ଃ" Oriya Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B03 "ଃ" Oriya Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Oriya script to represent the visarga, a phonetic feature that indicates a voiceless breathy sound or a final aspiration after a vowel, similar to its counterpart in other Brahmic scripts like Devanagari. It appears as a double dot following a vowel or consonant, modifying the pronunciation by adding a subtle exhale at the end of the syllable. This character is essential for correctly writing and vocalizing Sanskrit-derived words in the Oriya language, where it often marks the end of a word or a pause in formal recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B03 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Sign Visarga |
| Block | Oriya |
| 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 0xAC 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b03 |