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Two letters fused into one.
Also known as: Conjunct consonant, Fused consonant glyph
The Brahmic convention writing a consonant cluster as a single fused glyph rather than as separate letters.
Writes a sequence of consonants without an intervening vowel as one fused glyph.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
The reason a Devanagari font needs hundreds more glyphs than there are letters, and the reason Indic text was among the last major writing systems to be handled properly by digital typesetting.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
Some conjuncts are transparent stacks of their parts and others are opaque forms a reader has to learn separately, which is a genuine difficulty in learning the script rather than a rendering artefact.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
A single glyph in which two or more consonant letters are merged, often with one reduced, truncated or turned, so the components are recognisable but not separable.