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<p><span class="autocomment">References: </span> category add</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox punctuation mark<br /> |mark={{lang|hi|॰}}<br /> |unicode={{unichar|0970|devanagari abbreviation sign|html=}}<br /> }}<br /> {{Contains special characters|Indic}}<br /> <br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;laghava&#039;&#039;&#039; ( &#039;&#039;&#039;{{lang|hi|॰}}&#039;&#039;&#039; ; from the {{lang-sa|लाघव चिह्न|translit-std=ISO|lāghava cihna|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 {{unichar|0970|devanagari abbreviation sign|html=}}.&lt;ref&gt;Devanagari - Unicode Consortium, Unicode Chart, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> It is used as abbreviation sign in [[Hindi]] and other [[Devanagari]]-script-based languages. For example, &quot;Dr.&quot; is written as &quot;{{lang|hi|डॉ॰}}&quot;, &quot;M.Sc.&quot; as &quot;{{lang|hi|एम॰एससी॰}}&quot;, etc.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * 。: [[。|CJK full stop]]<br /> * ° : [[°|degree symbol]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Laghava}}<br /> [[Category:Brahmic diacritics]]<br /> [[Category:Devanagari]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{writingsystem-stub}}</div>

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