U+11182 "𑆂" Sharada Sign Visarga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑆂

U+11182 "𑆂" Sharada Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Sharada script, an abugida historically employed to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound, denoted phonetically as /h/, and appears as a small circle or dot that typically attaches to the right side of a consonant character. This sign functions as a final voiceless aspirate, often indicating the ending of a word or echoing the Sanskrit visarga in transliteration. Its use helps preserve the phonetic accuracy of ancient texts, particularly in manuscript traditions and inscriptions from the Kashmir valley and surrounding areas.

General Properties

Code Point U+11182
Version Added 6.1
Name Sharada Sign Visarga
Block Sharada
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑆂
HTML Hex Encoding 𑆂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD82
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011182
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd82

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Combining Mark
Script Sharada
Script Extensions Sharada
Indic Syllabic Category Visarga
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend