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Daṇḍa (Wikipedia)
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- What it is
- An encyclopedia article on the daṇḍa, the vertical stroke that ends sentences in Devanagari and other Indic scripts. It gives the Unicode code points and says where the mark is used.
- How much weight it carries
- An open encyclopedia, so it can be edited. It is used here only for the Unicode code point and the usage, which are standard and cross-checkable against the Unicode Standard.
Facts taken from this source
- The daṇḍa, the vertical stroke used as a full stop in Hindi and Nepali, marks the end of a sentence or line.
“The daṇḍa marks the end of a sentence or line” (Use)
- Unicode encodes the daṇḍa as code point U+0964, named DEVANAGARI DANDA.
“Unicode encodes the daṇḍas as U+0964 ... DEVANAGARI DANDA” (Computer encoding)