DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA

Codepoint
U+094D
Literal Character
Name
DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA
Sketch
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Aliases
halant (the preferred Hindi name)
Control Character
no
Block
Devanagari
Subblock
Virama
UTF-8 byte encoding
e0 a5 8d
UTF-16 byte encoding
09 4d (big endian)
HTML Entity
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Perl string literal
\x{94D}
Comments
  • suppresses inherent vowel