U+11182 "𑆂" Sharada Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+11182 "𑆂" Sharada Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Sharada script, an abugida historically employed to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It represents a voiceless glottal fricative sound, denoted phonetically as /h/, and appears as a small circle or dot that typically attaches to the right side of a consonant character. This sign functions as a final voiceless aspirate, often indicating the ending of a word or echoing the Sanskrit visarga in transliteration. Its use helps preserve the phonetic accuracy of ancient texts, particularly in manuscript traditions and inscriptions from the Kashmir valley and surrounding areas.