U+111C1 "𑇁" Sharada Sign Avagraha Unicode Character

U+111C1 "𑇁" Sharada Sign Avagraha is a typographic mark used in the Sharada script, an ancient writing system historically employed for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent. This sign functions as a diacritic or punctuation to indicate a vowel elision or hiatus, specifically marking the omission of an initial vowel sound in a word by merging it with the preceding vowel, similar to the avagraha in other Brahmic scripts. It is typically placed above or attached to the preceding character within text, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard supports accurate representation of classical manuscripts and modern linguistic works preserving this orthographic feature.