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'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 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 ]
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.
The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "[॥] Error: {{Lang}}: Latn text/non-Latn script subtag mismatch " symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām , meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.
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 can also affect the choice of symbol for the thousands separator used in digit grouping.
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 .
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.
A signboard in Kerala A sign in Bengaluru Gurgaon Expressway Sion Panvel Highway Traffic sign in Kannur Road sign at a village in West Bengal Road sign on NH11 near Ajmer, Rajasthan. This is an example of a Gantry-mounted advance direction ahead of an at-grade junction. Road signs in India can vary in design, depending on the location.