candrabindu

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Noun

1. A [[diacritic]] used in Indic scripts like [[Devanagari]] ({{lang|mul|sc=Deva|[[ँ]]}}), [[Bengali]] ({{lang|mul|sc=Beng|[[ঁ]]}}), [[Gurmukhi]] ( {{lang|mul|sc=Guru|[[ਁ]]}}), [[Gujarati]] ({{lang|mul|sc=Gujr|[[ઁ]]}}), [[Odia]] ({{lang|mul|sc=Orya|[[ଁ]]}}), and [[Telugu]] ({{lang|mul|sc=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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