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The '''laghava''' ( '''{{lang|hi|॰}}'''; from the {{langx|sa|लाघव चिह्न|translit-std=ISO|lāghava cihna|brevity sign}}, {{ipa|sa|laːɡʰɐʋɐ|ipa}}) is the [[Devanagari]] abbreviation sign, comparable to the [[full stop]] or [[ellipsis]] as used in the [[Latin alphabet]]. It is encoded in [[Unicode]] at {{unichar|0970|devanagari abbreviation sign|html=}}.<ref>Devanagari - Unicode Consortium, Unicode Chart, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf</ref>

It is used as abbreviation sign in [[Hindi]] and other [[Devanagari]]-script-based languages. For example, "Dr." is written as "{{lang|hi|डॉ॰}}", "M.Sc." as "{{lang|hi|एम॰एससी॰}}", etc.

== See also ==
* 。: [[Full stop|CJK full stop]]
* ° : [[°|degree symbol]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Brahmic diacritics]]
[[Category:Devanagari]]


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