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Chandrabindu |
Chandrabindu (Sanskrit:चन्द्रबिन्दु;IAST:candrabindu,lit. 'moon dot') is adiacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in theDevanagari (ँ),Bengali-Assamese (ঁ),Gujarati (ઁ),Odia (ଁ),Tamil (◌𑌁 Extension used fromGrantha),Telugu (ఁ),Kannada (◌ಁ),Malayalam (◌ഁ),Sinhala (◌ඁ),Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
It usually means that the previousvowel isnasalized.
InHindi, it is replaced in writing byanusvara when it is written above a consonant that carries a vowel symbol that extends above the top line.
InClassical Sanskrit, it seems to occur only over alla, yya, or vva conjunct consonant, to show that it is pronounced as a nasalized doublel, y,or v which occurs if they have becomeassimilated insandhi.
InVedic Sanskrit, it is used instead of anusvara to represent the soundanunasika when the next word starts with a vowel. It usually occurs where in earlier times a word ended in-ans.
Unicode encodes chandrabindu and chandrabindu-like characters for a variety of scripts:[1]
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