U+0A83 "ઃ" Gujarati Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0A83 "ઃ" Gujarati Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to represent a voiceless breathy release, often transliterated as "ḥ" in Romanized text, and it typically appears after a vowel to indicate a final aspirated sound or a subtle echo of the preceding vowel in certain Sanskrit-derived words. In the Gujarati writing system, this character functions similarly to the Visarga found in Devanagari and other Brahmic scripts, serving as a phonetic modifier rather than an independent grapheme. Its presence can alter the pronunciation of a syllable, and it is commonly encountered in religious, classical, or transliterated Sanskrit terms used within Gujarati texts. Despite its specific orthographic role, the Gujarati Sign Visarga is relatively rare in everyday modern Gujarati writing, being largely confined to scholarly or liturgical contexts.