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Chandrabindu (meaning "moon-dot" in Sanskrit, alternatively spelled candrabindu, chandravindu, candravindu, or chôndrobindu) is a diacritic sign having the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (), Gujarati (ઁ), Oriya ((unicode:ଁ)), Telugu (ఁ), and Javanese (ꦀ) scripts. It usually means that the previous vowel is nasalized. It is represented in Unicode as U+0901 in Devanagari, U+0981 in Bengali, U+0A81 in Gujarati, U+0B01 in Oriya, U+0C01 in Telugu and U+A980 in Javanese. There is also a general-purpose combining diacritical mark COMBINING CANDRABINDU code point U+0310 ((unicode:◌̐)), but this is intended for use with Latin letters in transliteration of Indic languages. In Hindi, it is replaced in writing by anusvara when it is written above a consonant which carries a vowel symbol which extends above the top line. In Classical Sanskrit it only seems to occur over a ''lla'' conjunct consonant, to show that it is pronounced as a nasalized double ''l'', which occurs where ''-nl-'' have become assimilated in sandhi. In Vedic Sanskrit it is used instead of anusvara to represent the sound called anunaasika when the next word starts with a vowel. It usually occurs where in earlier times a word ended in ''-ans''. ==Not to be confused with== Another symbol, called the fermata, similar in appearance to an upside-down chandrabindu, is an element of musical notation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chandrabindu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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