# U+094D DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA

Devanagari halant or virama, a small slash under a consonant that removes its inherent vowel and is used to form conjunct consonants.

| | |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+094D |
| Name | DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA |
| Also known as | halant (the preferred Hindi name) |
| Block | [Devanagari](https://unicodekit.com/block/devanagari) |
| Script | Devanagari |
| Category | Nonspacing Mark (Mn) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `्` `्` |
| CSS | `\94D` |
| JavaScript | `\u094D` |
| UTF-8 | E0 A5 8D |
| UTF-16 | 094D |

## Notes

- suppresses inherent vowel

## Related characters

- [U+094C DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AU](https://unicodekit.com/char/094C)
- [U+094E DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN PRISHTHAMATRA E](https://unicodekit.com/char/094E)
- [U+094B DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN O](https://unicodekit.com/char/094B)
- [U+094F DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AW](https://unicodekit.com/char/094F)
- [U+094A DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT O](https://unicodekit.com/char/094A)
- ॐ [U+0950 DEVANAGARI OM](https://unicodekit.com/char/0950)
- [U+0949 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN CANDRA O](https://unicodekit.com/char/0949)
- [U+0951 DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0951)
- [U+0948 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AI](https://unicodekit.com/char/0948)
- [U+0952 DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN ANUDATTA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0952)
- [U+0947 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E](https://unicodekit.com/char/0947)
- [U+0953 DEVANAGARI GRAVE ACCENT](https://unicodekit.com/char/0953)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/094D · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/094D