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A stroke suppressing a Telugu consonant's vowel.
Also known as: Telugu halant, Telugu vowel killer
In Telugu the virama suppresses a consonant's inherent vowel, though in ordinary text consonant clusters are more often written by stacking a subscript form of the second letter.
Suppresses the inherent vowel of the Telugu consonant it modifies.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Competes with subscript stacking, which Telugu uses more commonly for clusters, so the visible virama is less frequent than in the northern scripts.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A short stroke placed above the Telugu consonant letter whose vowel it suppresses.