U+0C83 "ಃ" Kannada Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಃ
U+0C83 "ಃ" Kannada Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a voiceless glottal fricative sound that occurs primarily in Sanskrit-derived vocabulary. It appears after a vowel and is written as two small circles resembling a colon, modifying the pronunciation of the preceding vowel by adding a breathy, aspirated release. In linguistic terms, it is a visarga, a phonetic feature borrowed from Sanskrit that functions as a specific coda in the syllable structure, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for accurate digital representation of this ancient and essential element of Kannada orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C83 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Sign Visarga |
| Block | Kannada |
| 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 0xB2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c83 |