The full Devanagari character set for Hindi, ready to copy with one click — 13 vowels (svar), 33 consonants (vyanjan), the three traditional conjuncts, and every matra vowel sign, each labeled with its IAST name.
The 13 independent vowel letters, used when a vowel starts a word or follows another vowel. The last two are anusvara (nasal) and visarga shown on the vowel a.
The 33 consonants in traditional order, arranged by place of articulation from the throat forward. Each carries an inherent 'a' vowel unless a matra or virama changes it.
Three conjuncts taught alongside the alphabet. Each is a sequence of two consonants joined by a virama, rendered by the font as a single ligature.
Combining vowel signs that attach to consonants, replacing the inherent 'a'. Paste one directly after a consonant: क + ी = की. The last mark is the virama, which removes the vowel entirely.
Click any character to copy it, or use the section buttons to copy groups.
Devanagari is the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, read left to right under its signature headline stroke (shirorekha) that ties the letters of a word together. The characters on this page come from the Unicode Devanagari block (U+0900–U+097F), used daily by several hundred million people. Devanagari is an abugida, not an alphabet in the Latin sense: every consonant carries a built-in 'a' vowel, so क alone reads ka. The 33 consonants are ordered scientifically by where the sound is made in the mouth — velar क-row first, then palatal, retroflex, dental, and labial rows, with the semivowels and sibilants at the end.
Vowels appear in two forms. At the start of a word — or after another vowel — you use the independent letters in the first section, like आ in आम (mango). After a consonant you use the matching matra instead: क plus the ā matra gives का. The matras are combining characters that hook onto the consonant on whichever side the vowel lives — ि attaches to the left of its consonant even though it is typed and pasted after it, which surprises everyone the first time. The virama (्) strips the inherent vowel, and it is also the glue of conjuncts: क + ् + ष fuses into क्ष.
Because matras and the virama are combining marks, what you copy is not always what you see. Each cell on this page copies the exact character sequence shown — the conjuncts क्ष, त्र, and ज्ञ, for example, copy as three codepoints each (consonant, virama, consonant) that fonts render as one ligature. All of it is standard Unicode, so pasted Hindi works in documents, browsers, and every major social platform. If a matra shows up on a dotted circle, it simply has no consonant to attach to yet — paste it directly after one and the pair merges into a single syllable.
Yes. Devanagari is standard Unicode (U+0900–U+097F) and renders correctly in WhatsApp messages, Instagram bios and captions, YouTube titles and comments, and on X and Discord. Every modern phone and desktop ships Devanagari fonts. Only systems restricted to plain ASCII — some email addresses and legacy forms — will reject the characters.
It doesn't — that's how Devanagari works. The short i matra (ि) is always typed and stored after its consonant but drawn to the left of it, so कि is the sequence क + ि. Other matras attach above (े), below (ु), or to the right (ा). The font repositions them automatically; just paste the matra after the consonant.
अ is the independent vowel letter, used when the sound starts a word. Every consonant already contains that 'a' sound, so it has no matra at all — क alone is ka. The other vowels each exist twice: as a full letter (आ, इ, ई) for word-initial position and as a matra (ा, ि, ी) that attaches to a consonant.
Copying syllable by syllable is slow and easy to get wrong, because names are converted by sound. Our Name in Hindi tool transliterates an English name to Devanagari automatically — Sarah becomes सारा, for example. For longer text, the free online Hindi keyboard linked below gives you the full INSCRIPT layout right in your browser.
They are conjuncts — two consonants fused by a virama. क्ष is stored as क + ् + ष, three codepoints that your font renders as a single ligature. This is correct Unicode: search, sorting, and screen readers all understand the sequence. Just select and copy the whole cell and it will paste as the same ligature anywhere.