।

Translingual

Pronunciation

• Names:
  • Hindi: दण्ड (daṇḍ)
  • Bengali: দাঁড়ি (dãṛi), পূর্ণচ্ছেদ (purnocched)

Punctuation mark

।

1. The danda, a punctuation mark of many Indic scripts, equivalent to the English period (.).

Usage notes

• In Unicode, it is part of the Devanagari block but shared between Indic scripts.

Related terms

• ॥, the double danda

See also

• །, the Tibetan shad