candrabindu
A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Odia,…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")
Meaning
1 sensesA 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
Chandrabindu
чандраби́ндуčandrabíndu
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).
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