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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 ]
'brevity sign') is the Devanagari abbreviation sign, comparable to the full stop or ellipsis as used in the Latin alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode at U+0970 ॰ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN. [1] It is used as abbreviation sign in Hindi and other Devanagari-script-based languages.
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 full stop symbol derives from the Greek punctuation introduced by Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century BCE. [citation needed] In his system, there was a series of dots whose placement determined their meaning.
A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. 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.
The author of First You Write a Sentence makes a strong case for the humble full stop. ... Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail.
However, many Warring States period bamboo texts contain the symbols └ and indicating the end of a chapter and full stop, respectively. [6] By the Song dynasty , the addition of punctuation to texts by scholars to aid comprehension became common.
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