U+0903 "ः" Devanagari Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0903 "ः" Devanagari Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a voiceless breathy sound that occurs after a vowel, often transliterated as "ḥ" in Romanized text. It appears as two small vertical dots (or a colon-like shape) above and to the right of a character, indicating an aspiration or a slight puff of air at the end of a syllable. Common in Sanskrit and some modern Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi and Marathi, this sign originates from the Brahmi script and is typically found in words of Sanskrit derivation, where it functions as an independent phoneme or as a grammatical marker in compounds and sandhi (sound combination) rules.