U+0D4E, ൎ
MALAYALAM LETTER DOT REPH

[U+0D4D]
Malayalam
[U+0D4F]

Malayalam

Pronunciation

Diacritical mark

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  1. (archaic) In the traditional orthography, a dead consonant r before a consonant sometimes takes an above-base form, known as a dot reph, which looks like a short vertical line or a dot. Generally, a chillu-r () is used instead of a dot reph in the reformed orthography.[1][2] In writing it was sometimes confused with the vertical bar virama ഻ but they are used for different purposes.

r ര് + ga ഗ = ൎഗ (Reformed: ർഗ)
r ര് + ja ജ = ൎജ (Reformed: ർജ)

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