U+11C3F "ð‘°¿" Bhaiksuki Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11C3F "ð‘°¿" Bhaiksuki Sign Virama is a combining mark used in the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically employed to write Sanskrit and other languages in regions of northern India and Nepal. This virama diacritic serves the crucial function of removing the inherent vowel from a consonant character, thereby creating a conjunct consonant or a consonant cluster, which allows for more precise phonetic representation of complex syllables in the script. It is typically placed below or to the side of the base consonant character to indicate that the vowel sound is suppressed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C3F |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bhaiksuki Sign Virama |
| Block | Bhaiksuki |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑰿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑰿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc3f |