"Chandrabindu (meaning \"moon-dot\" in Sanskrit, alternatively spelled candrabindu, chandravindu, candravindu, or ch\u00F4ndrobindu) is a diacritic sign having the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (\u0901), Bengali (\u0981), Gujarati (\u0A81), Oriya (\u0B01), Telugu (\u0C01), and Javanese (\uA980) scripts.It usually means that the previous vowel is nasalized."@en .