tin1 sing4 man4天城文
Jyutpingtin1 sing4 man4
Yaletīn sìhng màhn
Definition
Devanagari; an abugida writing system used to write languages of northern India and Nepal, including Hindi, Sanskrit, and Nepali.
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How it's used
Academic and linguistic contexts are where this term appears most frequently. It is rarely used in casual daily conversation unless one is specifically discussing South Asian languages or scripts. When referring to the script in a general sense, speakers might simply describe it as the script used for Hindi.
Examples
This book is entirely written in Devanagari.
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Common phrases
Devanagari font
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
