U+11838 "𑠸" Dogra Sign Visarga Unicode Character

U+11838 "𑠸" Dogra Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Dogra script, a historical writing system once employed for the Dogri language in the Jammu region of northern India. This specific character represents the visarga, a phonetic element in several Indic scripts that indicates a voiceless breathy sound after a vowel, typically transliterated as a final "h" with a distinct aspiration. In the Dogra script, which evolved from the Takri script and was used primarily for administrative and literary purposes before falling into disuse, the Dogra Sign Visarga served as an essential orthographic component for accurately representing Sanskrit and Dogri phonology. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures its digital preservation and supports scholarly efforts to study and revive the Dogra script.