Laghava
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| ॰ | |
|---|---|
Laghava | |
| U+0970 ॰ <reserved-0970> |
The laghava ( ॰; from the Sanskrit: लाघव चिह्न, romanized: lāghava cihna, lit. 'brevity sign', IPA: [laːɡʰɐʋɐ]) is the Devanagari abbreviation sign, comparable to the full stop or ellipsis as used in the Latin alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode at U+0970 ॰ <reserved-0970>.[1]
It is used as abbreviation sign in Hindi and other Devanagari-script-based languages. For example, "Dr." is written as "डॉ॰", "M.Sc." as "एम॰एससी॰", etc.
See also
[edit | edit source]- 。: CJK full stop
- ° : degree symbol
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Devanagari - Unicode Consortium, Unicode Chart, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf
