U+0C83 "ಃ" Kannada Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0C83 "ಃ" Kannada Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a voiceless glottal fricative sound that occurs primarily in Sanskrit-derived vocabulary. It appears after a vowel and is written as two small circles resembling a colon, modifying the pronunciation of the preceding vowel by adding a breathy, aspirated release. In linguistic terms, it is a visarga, a phonetic feature borrowed from Sanskrit that functions as a specific coda in the syllable structure, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for accurate digital representation of this ancient and essential element of Kannada orthography.