U+10A0F "𐨏" Kharoshthi Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐨏
U+10A0F "𐨏" Kharoshthi Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system employed primarily in the Gandhara region of South Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. It represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound similar to the visarga in Brahmi-derived scripts, typically occurring after a vowel at the end of a syllable or word to denote an aspirated release of breath. This character is part of the Kharoshthi block within the Unicode standard, supporting the digital encoding of historical texts such as Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A0F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Kharoshthi Sign Visarga |
| Block | Kharoshthi |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐨏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐨏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude0f |