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The velar breath mark in Kannada.
The Kannada mark for the velar fricative allophone of the visarga, retained from Sanskrit orthography.
Writes the velar fricative allophone of the visarga in Kannada renderings of Sanskrit.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Encoded separately from the Devanagari and Vedic forms because the Kannada glyph is a different shape for the same phonological rule — the rule travelled with the Sanskrit text and each script drew it in its own hand.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A pair of opposed arcs closing toward each other like a bracket, set before a velar consonant in the rounded Kannada hand.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.