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Chandrabindu (IAST: candrabindu, lit. ' moon dot ' in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (ঁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Tamil ( 𑌁 Extension used from Grantha), Telugu (ఁ), Kannada ( ಁ), Malayalam ( ഁ), Sinhala ( ඁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
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.
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.
The writing system can be selected in rich text by markup or in plain text by means of the ATR code described below. One motivation for the use of a single encoding is the idea that it will allow easy transliteration from one writing system to another. [2]: 462 However, there are enough incompatibilities that this is not really a practical idea.
A hyphen symbol (for the marked type-I) denotes change from the original termination to another (for example laṛkā to laṛke in the masculine singular oblique), whereas a plus sign (for the unmarked type-II) denotes an ending which should be added (seb to sebõ in the masculine plural oblique). -Ø denotes that no suffix is added to the ...
When Devanāgarī is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words. Native words typically use the basic consonant and native speakers know to suppress the vowel when it is conventional to do so. For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [60]
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 ...