candrabindu

/t͡ʃʌndɹəbɪnduː/

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).

candrabindu means A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka"). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

noun

A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka")“Devanagari: कँ”