U+113CF "𑏏" Tulu-Tigalari Sign Looped Virama Unicode Character

U+113CF "𑏏" Tulu-Tigalari Sign Looped Virama is a combining mark used in the historical Tulu-Tigalari script, primarily employed to write the Tulu language in southern India. As a virama, its essential function is to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant character, thereby creating a conjunct or a dead consonant. The "looped" designation refers to its distinctive cursive form, which connects visually to the base character to indicate this vowel cancellation. This character is a key orthographic component for accurately representing the syllabic structure of the Tulu language in its traditional script, and it belongs to the Unicode block specifically encoding these historical South Asian characters.