# candrabindu

> English word · Noun · IPA /t͡ʃʌndɹəbɪnduː/

## Definitions
1. A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka")

## Etymology
From Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/candrabindu