U+0EBA "຺" Lao Sign Pali Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0EBA "຺" Lao Sign Pali Virama is a combining mark used in the Lao script to indicate the absence of the inherent vowel in a consonant, specifically within the context of Pali language transcription. When applied to a consonant character, it functions as a virama, effectively suppressing the default vowel and creating a conjunct or stacked consonant form, which is essential for accurately rendering Pali words in Lao orthography. This character is visually represented as a small, curved diacritic placed above or to the right of the base consonant, and it is distinct from the standard Lao virama, serving a specialized role for Buddhist liturgical and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0EBA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Lao Sign Pali Virama |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0EBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000EBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0eba |