Laghava
The laghava ( ॰ ; from the Sanskrit: लाघव चिह्न, romanized: lāghava cihna, lit. 'brevity sign') 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 ॰ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN (HTML ॰).[1]
| ॰ | |
|---|---|
Laghava | |
| In Unicode | U+0970 ॰ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN (HTML ॰) |
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
- 。: CJK full stop
- ° : degree symbol
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