U+0D03 Malayalam Sign Visarga
U+0D03 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Malayalam script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0D03 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Spacing Mark.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Visarga (Sanskrit: विसर्गः, romanized: visargaḥ) means "sending forth, discharge". In Sanskrit phonology (śikṣā), visarga (also called, equivalently, visarjanīya by earlier grammarians) is the name of a phone voiceless glottal fricative, [h], written as:
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 |
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Nº | 3331 |
UTF-8 | E0 B4 83 |
UTF-16 | 0D 03 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 0D 03 |
URL-Quoted | %E0%B4%83 |
HTML hex reference | ഃ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | à´ƒ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
MALAYALAM SIGN VISARGA | |
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Malayalam | |
Spacing Mark | |
Malayalam | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Spacing Mark | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
Right | |
Visarga | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Combining Mark | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |