U+1038 "း" Myanmar Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1038 "း" Myanmar Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Myanmar (Burmese) script, representing a visarga, which in Sanskrit and Pali contexts indicates a voiceless breathy release after a vowel, typically transliterated as "ḥ." In the Myanmar writing system, it appears as a pair of dots placed after a character and modifies pronunciation by adding a final, aspirated "h" sound, similar to a soft exhalation. This sign is integral to writing loanwords from Pali and Sanskrit in Burmese, where it denotes a specific phonetic nuance not found in native Burmese words, and it is encoded in Unicode as part of the Myanmar block to support accurate digital representation of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1038 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Sign Visarga |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | း |
| HTML Hex Encoding | း |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1038 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001038 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1038 |