U+0D03 "ഃ" Malayalam Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+0D03 "ഃ" Malayalam Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark in the Malayalam script, visually represented as two small dots placed side by side, akin to a colon. It originates from the Brahmi script and functions as a grammatical and phonetic element, typically indicating a voiceless breath or an aspirated release after a vowel, similar to the visarga in Sanskrit. In Malayalam orthography, it usually appears at the end of a word or syllable to denote a final /h/ sound, often in loanwords or in classical literary contexts, and it plays a key role in preserving the phonetic integrity of texts derived from Sanskrit.