Chandrabindu
Diacritic mark typically denoting nazalization, in Indian abugidas
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Chandrabindu (Sanskrit: à¤à¤¨à¥à¤¦à¥à¤°à¤¬à¤¿à¤¨à¥à¤¦à¥; IAST: candrabindu, lit.â'moon dot') is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (à¤), Bengali-Assamese (à¦), Gujarati (àª), Odia (à¬), Tamil (âð Extension used from Grantha), Telugu (à°), Kannada (âà²), Malayalam (âà´), Sinhala (âà¶), Javanese ( ê¦) and other scripts.
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It usually means that the previous vowel is nasalized.
In Hindi, it is replaced in writing by anusvara when it is written above a consonant that carries a vowel symbol that extends above the top line.
In Classical Sanskrit, it seems to occur only over a lla, yya, or vva conjunct consonant, to show that it is pronounced as a nasalized double l, y, or v which occurs if they have become assimilated in sandhi.
In Vedic Sanskrit, it is used instead of anusvara to represent the sound anunasika when the next word starts with a vowel. It usually occurs where in earlier times a word ended in -ans.
Unicode
Unicode encodes chandrabindu and chandrabindu-like characters for a variety of scripts:[1]
- U+0901 ठDEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+A8F2 ꣲ DEVANAGARI SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
- U+A8F3 ꣳ DEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU VIRAMA
- U+0900 ठDEVANAGARI SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU
- U+0A01 ਠGURMUKHI SIGN ADAK BINDI
- U+0A70 à©° GURMUKHI TIPPI
- U+0C80 ಠKANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
- U+0C81 ಠKANNADA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0C01 à° TELUGU SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0C00 à° TELUGU SIGN COMBINING CANDRABINDU ABOVE
- U+0981 ঠBENGALI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0B01 ଠORIYA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0D01 à´ MALAYALAM SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0A81 ઠGUJARATI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11000 ð BRAHMI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+115BC ð¼ SIDDHAM SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11301 ð GRANTHA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11F00 ð¼ KAWI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0F82 ྠTIBETAN SIGN NYI ZLA NAA DA
- U+0F83 ྠTIBETAN SIGN SNA LDAN
- U+A873 ꡳ PHAGS-PA LETTER CANDRABINDU
- U+11443 ð NEWA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11C3C ð°¼ BHAIKSUKI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+111CF ð SHARADA SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU
- U+1193C 𤼠DIVES AKURU SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+A8C5 ê£ SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11080 ð KAITHI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+114BF ð¿ TIRHUTA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11CB6 𲶠MARCHEN SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+1B01 ᬠBALINESE SIGN ULU CANDRA
- U+1B00 ᬠBALINESE SIGN ULU RICEM
- U+1C34 á°´ LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN NYIN-DO
- U+1C35 á°µ LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG
- U+11A35 𨵠ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11A36 𨶠ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRABINDU WITH ORNAMENT
- U+11A37 𨷠ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRA WITH ORNAMENT
- U+0310 âÌ COMBINING CANDRABINDU is a general-purpose combining diacritical mark intended for use with Latin letters in transliteration of Indic languages.
