The laghava ( ; from the , ) is the Devanagari abbreviation sign, comparable to the full stop or ellipsis as used in the Latin alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode at .Devanagari - Unicode Consortium, Unicode Chart, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf
It is used as abbreviation sign in Hindi and other Devanagari-script-based languages. For example, "Dr." is written as "", "M.Sc." as "", etc.
See also 。: CJK full stop ° : degree symbol
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