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◌഼ U+0D3C, ഼ MALAYALAM SIGN CIRCULAR VIRAMA ← ◌഻ [U+0D3B] Malayalam ഽ → [U+0D3D]

Malayalam

Diacritic

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1. Like the chandrakala and vertical bar virama, the circular virama was used to delete the inheret vowel from the consonant but it was used between 1700s to 1860s in native words while vertical bar virama in loanwords at the same time and chandrakala in later times.[1]

References

1. https://unicode.org/L2/L2014/14015r-vertical-virama.pdf