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.[1]

॰
Laghava
U+0970 ॰ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN

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

References
  1. Devanagari - Unicode Consortium, Unicode Chart, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf


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