U+11C3A "𑰺" Bhaiksuki Vowel Sign O Unicode Character

U+11C3A "𑰺" Bhaiksuki Vowel Sign O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Bhaiksuki script, a historical Brahmic writing system primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and possibly other languages in ancient India, particularly in the region of present-day Bihar and West Bengal. This vowel sign represents the "o" sound and is placed above the consonant character it modifies, as is typical for dependent vowel signs in Brahmic scripts. It belongs to the Bhaiksuki block of Unicode, which was added to version 9.0 in 2016, and is encoded for digital representation to support the preservation and study of this extinct script, which was often used in Buddhist manuscript traditions.