candrabindu

Noun. A diacritic used in the Devanagari ((Deva, ँ) ), Bengali ((Beng, ঁ) ), Gurmukhi ( (Guru, ਁ) ), Gujarati ((Gujr, ઁ) ), Oriya ((Orya, ଁ) ), and Telugu ((Telu, ఁ) ) 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"):.

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