Laghava

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Laghava
In UnicodeU+0970 DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN (HTML ॰)

The laghava (  ; from the Sanskrit: लाघव चिह्न, romanizedlāghava 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]

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.

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