Chandrabindu

{{Short description|Diacritic mark typically denoting nazalization, in Indian abugidas}} {{About|the diacritic|the Bengali band|Chandrabindoo (band)|the film|Chandrabindoo (film)}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox Indic letter |letname = Candrabindu |mainimg = Devanagari ँ.svg |bengcp = 0981 |tibtcp = 0F83 |mlymcp = 0D01 |brahcp = 11000 |devacp = 0901 |iast= m̐ |iscii=A1 }}

'''Chandrabindu''' ({{langx|sa|चन्द्रबिन्दु}}; IAST: {{IAST|candrabindu}}, {{Lit|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 (ँ), Bengali-Assamese ({{Lang|bn|ঁ}}), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Tamil (◌𑌁 Extension used from Grantha), Telugu (ఁ), Kannada (◌ಁ), Malayalam (◌ഁ), Sinhala (◌ඁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.

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''. == Glyph comparison == {{Contains special characters|Devanagari}} {{Indic glyph|letname=candrabindu |brahcp=11000 |devacp=0901 |bengcp=0981 |telucp=0C01 |telu2cp=0C00 |oryacp=0B01 |kndacp=0C81 |mlymcp=0D01 |gujrcp=0A81 |gurucp=0A01 |guru2cp=0A70 |grancp=11301 |siddcp=115BC |tibtcp=0F82 |tibt2cp=0F83 |shrdcp=111CF |newacp=11443 |phagcp=A873 |zanbcp=11A35 |zanb2cp=11A37 |bhkscp=11C3C |kawicp=11F00 |balicp=1B01 |bali2cp=1B00 |diakcp=1193C |saurcp=A8C5 |kthicp=11080 |tirhcp=114BF |lepccp=1C34 |lepc2cp=1C35 |marccp=11CB6 }}

==Unicode <span class="anchor" id="Combining chandrabindu"></span>== {{special characters|Unicode}} Unicode encodes chandrabindu and chandrabindu-like characters for a variety of scripts:<ref>{{Cite web| title=Unicode Data 13.0.0| url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/UnicodeData.txt| access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref>

* {{unichar|0901}} * {{unichar|a8f2}} * {{unichar|a8f3}} * {{unichar|0900}} * {{unichar|0a01}} * {{unichar|0a70}} * {{unichar|0c80}} * {{unichar|0c81}} * {{unichar|0c01}} * {{unichar|0c00}} * {{unichar|0981}} * {{unichar|0b01}} * {{unichar|0d01}} * {{unichar|0a81}} * {{unichar|11000}} * {{unichar|115bc}} * {{unichar|11301}} * {{unichar|11f00}} * {{unichar|0f82}} * {{unichar|0f83}} * {{unichar|a873}} * {{unichar|11443}} * {{unichar|11c3c}} * {{unichar|111cf}} * {{unichar|1193c}} * {{unichar|a8c5 }} * {{unichar|11080}} * {{unichar|114bf}} * {{unichar|11cb6}} * {{unichar|1b01}} * {{unichar|1b00}} * {{unichar|1c34}} * {{unichar|1c35}} * {{unichar|11a35}} * {{unichar|11a36}} * {{unichar|11a37}} * {{unichar|0310|cwith=◌}} is a general-purpose combining diacritical mark intended for use with Latin letters in transliteration of Indic languages.

==See also== * Anusvara * Fermata

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Brahmic diacritics