U+0A03 "ਃ" Gurmukhi Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0A03 "ਃ" Gurmukhi Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Gurmukhi script, primarily for writing Sanskrit or Pali loanwords within Punjabi texts. It represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound, similar to an "h" sound, and appears as two small circles stacked vertically above the consonant it modifies, often indicating a final aspiration or a breathy release in transliterated sacred or scholarly vocabulary. Unlike some other scripts that use a visarga, this Gurmukhi sign is typically found in religious and classical contexts, such as in the Guru Granth Sahib, where it helps preserve the precise pronunciation of borrowed terms rather than being a common feature in everyday Punjabi writing.