Kaithi Visarga Sign

The Kaithi visarga marks a brief, unvoiced breath after a syllable.

It follows the vowel of the syllable it changes. When Sanskrit is written in Latin letters, this final breath is shown as ḥ (h with a dot below), as in aḥ.

The Lexilogos Kaithi keyboard maps uppercase H to 𑂂; that mapping was checked in 2026.

Where did this mark come from?

It continues a visarga tradition in an ancient Indian script family.

A recognizable visarga ancestor appears in a manuscript from the Gupta dynasty, an ancient Indian ruling family, from the fourth/fifth century CE. This points to script evolution, not a one-off invention: Kaithi is a later regional script in the Brahmic family, closely related to Devanagari.

Kaithi used the mark in administrative, commercial, legal, private, religious, and literary writing across North Indian languages. Its administrative use dates to at least the 16th century, and it was eclipsed by Devanagari in the early 20th century. In older Kaithi documents, a similar double-dot mark also served in abbreviations; the surrounding word helps distinguish that use from the phonetic visarga.