U+0983 Bengali Sign Visarga
U+0983 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Bengali in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Bengali script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0983 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with 7 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Visarga (Sanskrit: विसर्ग, romanized: visarga, lit. 'sending forth, discharge'), in Sanskrit phonology (śikṣā), is the name of the voiceless glottal fricative, [h], written as 'ः'. It was also called, equivalently, visarjanīya by earlier grammarians.
Visarga is an allophone of /r/ and /s/ in pausa (at the end of an utterance). Since /-s/ is a common inflectional suffix (of nominative singular, second person singular, etc.), visarga appears frequently in Sanskrit texts. In the traditional order of Sanskrit sounds, visarga and anusvāra appear between vowels and stop consonants.
The precise pronunciation of visarga in Vedic texts may vary between Śākhās. Some pronounce a slight echo of the preceding vowel after the aspiration: aḥ will be pronounced [ɐhᵄ], and iḥ will be pronounced [ihⁱ]. Visarga is not to be confused with colon.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 2435 |
| UTF-8 | E0 A6 83 |
| UTF-16 | 09 83 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 09 83 |
| URL-Quoted | %E0%A6%83 |
| HTML hex reference | ঃ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ঃ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 31 D9 39 |
| Adobe Glyph List | visargabengali |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BENGALI SIGN VISARGA | |
| — | |
| Bengali | |
| Spacing Mark | |
| Bengali | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Spacing Mark | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| Right | |
| Visarga | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Yes | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| Yes | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Combining Mark | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Bengali Sign Visarga | |
| R |