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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.
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.
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.
It is also described as "the sacred symbol of the cosmos in its unmanifested state". [1] [2] Bindu is the point around which the mandala is created, representing the Universe. [3] Bindu is often merged with [seed] (or sperm) and ova.
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The commonly seen representation of the syllable Om, ॐ, is a cursive ligature in Devanagari, combining अ (a) with उ (u) and the chandrabindu (ँ, ṃ). In Unicode, the symbol is encoded at U+0950 ॐ DEVANAGARI OM and at U+1F549 OM SYMBOL as a "generic symbol independent of Devanagari font".
The following table shows the character set for Devanagari.The code sets for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu are similar, with each Devanagari form replaced by the equivalent form in each writing system [2]: 462 .
chandrabindu: A chandrabindu denotes nasalisation although it is not normally used with Kaithi. [3] 𑂁: anusvara: An anusvara in Kaithi represents true vowel nasalisation. [3] For example, 𑂍𑂁, kaṃ. 𑂂: visarga: Visarga is a Sanskrit holdover originally representing /h/. For example, 𑂍𑂂 kaḥ. [3] 𑂹: halanta