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A dot above a crescent, marking a nasalised vowel.
Also known as: Moon dot mark, Chandrabindu, Nasal vowel mark Brahmic
In the Brahmic scripts the candrabindu is a dot sitting in a crescent, marking that the vowel itself is nasalised rather than that a nasal consonant follows.
Marks the vowel of its syllable as nasalised.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Differs from the anusvara in marking a nasalised vowel rather than a following nasal consonant, a distinction several modern orthographies have let collapse.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A small dot resting inside an upward-opening crescent, both placed above the letter.