U+10A3F "𐨿" Kharoshthi Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐨿
U+10A3F "𐨿" Kharoshthi Virama is a combining diacritical mark used in the ancient Kharoshthi script, primarily to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant or to create conjunct consonant clusters. In the Kharoshthi writing system, which was employed in the Gandhara region of modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE, this virama acts as a halant or vowel killer, indicating that the consonant it modifies is to be pronounced without a following vowel, thereby enabling the accurate representation of complex syllable structures and compound words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A3F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Kharoshthi Virama |
| Block | Kharoshthi |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐨿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐨿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude3f |