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  2. Bindu (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    In the Yogachudamani Upanishad Bindu is a duality, with a white Bindu representing shukla (pure) and a red Bindu representing maharaj . The white Bindu resides in the bindu visarga and is related to Shiva and the Moon, while the red Bindu resides in the muladhara chakra and is related to Shakti and the Sun. [4]

  3. Anusvara - Wikipedia

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    Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ṃ or ṁ in standards like ISO 15919 and IAST.

  4. Japanese ship-naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.

  5. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Many generalizations about Japanese pronunciation have exceptions if recent loanwords are taken into account. For example, the consonant [p] generally does not occur at the start of native (Yamato) or Chinese-derived (Sino-Japanese) words, but it occurs freely in this position in mimetic and foreign words. [2]

  6. Mudra - Wikipedia

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    Dhyāna mudrā is also known as "samādhi mudrā" or "yoga mudrā", Chinese: 禅定印; pinyin: [Chán]dìng yìn; Japanese pronunciation: jōin, jōkai jōin [citation needed]. The mida no jōin (弥陀定印) is the Japanese name of a variation of the dhyāna mudra, where the index fingers are brought together with the thumbs.

  7. Ruby character - Wikipedia

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    Ruby characters or rubi characters (Japanese: ルビ; rōmaji: rubi; Korean: 루비; romaja: rubi) are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of logographic characters of languages in the East Asian cultural sphere, such as Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja, to show the logographs' pronunciation; these were formerly also used for Vietnamese chữ ...

  8. Bindu - Wikipedia

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    Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a term meaning "point" or "dot". Bindu may also refer to: Bindu (symbol), a point symbol in Indian religions; Bindu, India, village in Darjeeling district of West Bengal India; Anusvara, a diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as a bindu or dot; Nuqta, diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as ...

  9. Khecarī mudrā - Wikipedia

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    Khecarī mudrā (Sanskrit, खेचरी मुद्रा) [1] [2] is a hatha yoga practice carried out by curling the tip of the tongue back into the mouth until it reaches above the soft palate and into the nasal cavity.