“्” U+094D: Devanagari Sign Virama

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The Devanagari Sign Virama (्), also known as the ‘halant’, is a crucial diacritic mark in Brahmic scripts. Its primary function is to suppress the inherent ‘a’ vowel of a consonant, marking it as a pure consonant sound. This is indispensable for creating ligature forms (conjuncts) and terminal consonants in languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, and Marathi.

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