U+0983 "ঃ" Bengali Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0983 "ঃ" Bengali Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Bengali script to represent the visarga, a phoneme that in Sanskrit and classical Indic languages produces a voiceless breathy sound after a vowel, often romanized as "ḥ". In modern Bengali, this character is primarily encountered in Sanskrit loanwords and in transliterations of sacred or scholarly texts, where it indicates a final aspiration. It appears after the last letter of a word or syllable and is typed alone, not combined with a consonant, serving as a distinct grapheme in the Bengali Unicode block.