candrabindu

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Etymology

From Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally moon dot).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌndɹəbɪnduː/, /t͡ʃɔndɹəbɪnduː/

Noun

candrabindu (plural candrabindus)

  1. A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (), Bengali (), Gurmukhi ( ), Gujarati (), Odia (), and Telugu () scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka"):
    Devanagari: कँ
    Bengali: কঁ
    Gurmukhi: ਕਁ
    Gujarati: કઁ
    Odia: କଁ
    Telugu: కఁ

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