U+1039 "္" Myanmar Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1039 "္" Myanmar Sign Virama is a combining mark used in the Myanmar script to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant, creating a dead consonant that is typically rendered as a subscript or half-form attached to the following consonant, thereby forming conjuncts or stacked characters essential for writing Burmese, Mon, and other languages using this script. This virama functions as a phonetic modifier, allowing complex syllable structures by linking consonant clusters without intervening vowels, and is often visible as a small diagonal stroke or dot beneath the affected character in printed or digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1039 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Sign Virama |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ္ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ္ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1039 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001039 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1039 |