U+0D03 "ഃ" Malayalam Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഃ
U+0D03 "ഃ" Malayalam Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark in the Malayalam script, visually represented as two small dots placed side by side, akin to a colon. It originates from the Brahmi script and functions as a grammatical and phonetic element, typically indicating a voiceless breath or an aspirated release after a vowel, similar to the visarga in Sanskrit. In Malayalam orthography, it usually appears at the end of a word or syllable to denote a final /h/ sound, often in loanwords or in classical literary contexts, and it plays a key role in preserving the phonetic integrity of texts derived from Sanskrit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D03 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Sign Visarga |
| Block | Malayalam |
| 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 0xB4 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d03 |