U+11C3D "𑰽" Bhaiksuki Sign Anusvara Unicode Character

U+11C3D "𑰽" Bhaiksuki Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the historical Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system primarily employed to write the Sanskrit language in manuscripts from the Himalayan region. This sign represents a homorganic nasal sound, typically occurring after a vowel, where it indicates that the following consonant should be pronounced with a nasal resonance at the same place of articulation. It appears as a dot or small circle placed above or near the character it modifies, functioning similarly to the anusvara found in other Indic scripts such as Devanagari. This character is part of the Bhaiksuki Unicode block, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitally encode the script’s unique orthographic conventions.