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A pre-velar breath mark.
Also known as: Velar visarga
The Vedic mark for the voiceless velar fricative that replaces a visarga before a k or kh.
Writes the velar fricative allophone of the visarga occurring before an unvoiced velar stop.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Named for the root of the tongue — jihvā-mūla — which is a phonetic description of the articulation embedded in the name of the character, the same naming logic Hangul uses.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Encoded at U+1CF5 in the Vedic Extensions block.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A small double-curved or bracket-like mark set before the following consonant, shaped in the Devanagari tradition like a pair of opposed arcs.