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The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.
The laghava ( ॰; from the Sanskrit: लाघव चिह्न, romanized: lāghava cihna, lit. 'brevity sign') is the Devanagari abbreviation sign, comparable to the full stop or ellipsis as used in the Latin alphabet.
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.
In Burmese script, the symbol ။ (U+104B "Myanmar Sign Section") is used as full stop. However, in Thai, no symbol corresponding to the full stop is used as terminal punctuation. A sentence is written without spaces and a space is typically used to mark the end of a clause or sentence. [citation needed]
Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. It encodes the main Indic scripts and a Roman transliteration. The supported scripts are: Bengali–Assamese , Devanagari , Gujarati , Gurmukhi , Kannada , Malayalam , Oriya , Tamil , and Telugu .
BAMUM FULL STOP U+A6F3: Po, other Bamum ꛴ BAMUM COLON U+A6F4: Po, other Bamum ꛵ BAMUM COMMA U+A6F5: Po, other Bamum ꛶ BAMUM SEMICOLON U+A6F6: Po, other Bamum ꛷ BAMUM QUESTION MARK U+A6F7: Po, other Bamum 櫵 BASSA VAH FULL STOP U+16AF5: Po, other Bassa Vah ᯼ BATAK SYMBOL BINDU NA METEK U+1BFC: Po, other Batak ᯽ BATAK SYMBOL BINDU ...
The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line, comparable to a full stop (period) as commonly used in the Latin alphabet, and is used together with Western punctuation in Hindi and Nepali. The daṇḍa and double daṇḍa are the only punctuation used in Sanskrit texts. [ 2 ]
A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45). Different countries officially designate different symbols for use as the separator. The choice of symbol also affects the choice of symbol for the thousands separator used in digit grouping.