What ඃ means
It marks a brief breath after the preceding vowel.
Visargaya, also called visarga, adds a short breath after the vowel. Sinhala writing developed from Brahmi, an ancient script tradition; Devanagari has a related sign, though pronunciation can vary.
In modern Sinhala, it mainly appears in scholarly writing and spellings borrowed from Sanskrit or Pali.
Learned; chiefly associated with Sanskrit- or Pali-derived spelling.
Do not treat it as a colon.
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Who writes ඃ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ඃ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ඃ
- Also called
- visarga · visargaya
- Search it as
- Sinhala visargaya · Sinhala visarga · colon
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ඃCSS
\0D83How to type Sinhala visargaya
Lexilogos' Sinhala keyboard assigns ඃ to uppercase H as of 2026; other layouts may differ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ඃ
HTML hex
ඃ
CSS content
content: "\0D83";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%B6%83
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.