U+0AFB "ૻ" Gujarati Sign Shadda Unicode Character

U+0AFB "ૻ" Gujarati Sign Shadda is a diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script, primarily to indicate gemination or the doubling of a consonant sound, a feature borrowed from Arabic and Persian orthography for writing loanwords. It is placed above a consonant character to signify that the consonant should be pronounced with emphasis or length, similar to the shadda in Arabic. This sign is part of the Gujarati Unicode block and is employed in transliterations and texts that require precise phonetic representation, particularly in religious, scholarly, or literary contexts where foreign terms are integrated.