Avagraha

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Template:Infobox diacritic Avagraha (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Template:Ipa) is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".) in many Indian languages like Sanskrit as shown below. It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe in Roman script and, in case of Devanagari, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "lang".), which is a sandhi of (Script error: No such module "Lang". + Script error: No such module "Lang".) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in some languages, for example Hindi Script error: No such module "Lang". for ‘Mā̃ā̃ā̃ā̃!’ when calling to one's mother, or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging: for example, 'cool' can be transliterated as Script error: No such module "Lang".. Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This symbol is more frequently used in the Bhojpuri langauge.

In the case of Hindi, the character is also sometimes used as a symbol to denote long or heavy syllables, in metrical poetry. For example, the syllables in the word Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang". ‘metre’ (in nominative) can be denoted as "Script error: No such module "Lang".", meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".)

Avagraha in Unicode

The avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points, for various Brahmic scripts that use it.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Avagraha characters in Unicode
Character Unicode character number Full Unicode name
U+093D Devanagari sign avagraha
U+A8F1 Combining Devanagari sign avagraha
U+A8F7 Devanagari sign candrabindu avagraha
U+09BD Bengali sign avagraha
U+0ABD Gujarati sign avagraha
U+0B3D Odia sign avagraha
U+0C3D Telugu sign avagraha
U+0CBD Kannada sign avagraha
U+1939 Limbu sign mukphreng
U+0D3D Malayalam sign avagraha
U+1BBA Sundanese sign avagraha
𑓄 U+114C4 Tirhuta sign avagraha
U+0F85 Tibetan sign paluta
ៜ ‍‍ U+17DC Khmer sign avakraha
U+1885 Mongolian Galik sign baluda

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