U+0CBD "ಽ" Kannada Sign Avagraha Unicode Character

U+0CBD "ಽ" Kannada Sign Avagraha is a diacritic mark used primarily in the Kannada script to denote the elision or omission of a vowel, specifically the inherent "a" sound, at the end of a word, often occurring in sandhi or compound word formations. It appears as a superscript curved symbol placed above the preceding consonant letter. While its usage in modern everyday Kannada writing is relatively rare, it is historically and linguistically significant in classical texts and formal transliterations, where it functions similarly to an apostrophe in other scripts, indicating a contraction or fusion of sounds between adjacent words or syllables.