What 𑌁 means
It nasalizes a vowel in Grantha Sanskrit. The difference between candrabindu and anusvara is that 𑌀 and 𑌂 are separate Grantha signs, not substitutes.
Grantha served Tamil-region readers writing Sanskrit because Tamil script could not represent all its sounds directly. It also wrote Sanskrit words in Manipravalam, a Tamil–Sanskrit mix. Grantha descends from Brahmi; forms leading to it appear in early Pallava inscriptions from the fourth century CE, while the modern form represented here belongs after the thirteenth century CE.
Specialist: it belongs to Grantha and Sanskrit orthography, especially Vedic and manuscript texts.
Do not replace it with an anusvara sign.
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Who writes 𑌁
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 𑌁 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𑌁
- Also called
- candrabindu · chandrabindu
- Search it as
- anunasika · anusvara · nasalized vowel · Grantha Sanskrit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑌁\11301Codes and encoding1 code points
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