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Two stacked dots marking a breathy final sound.
Also known as: Two dot final mark, Breath mark Brahmic
In the Brahmic scripts the visarga is a pair of dots marking a voiceless breath following a vowel, historically a final s or r in Sanskrit.
Marks a voiceless breath following the vowel of the syllable it closes.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Descends from a Sanskrit sandhi feature and survives in the modern scripts chiefly in loanwords and religious text rather than in everyday writing.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Two small dots placed one above the other after the letter they follow, like a colon.