How to get Hindi to work on computer?

The Hindi text on this site is generated in Unicode (UTF

-8). If you can read the following sentence, then your computer/operating system is unicode compliant and you should not have any problem using this site.

हिन्दी भारत की राष्ट्र भाषा है।

If you cannot view the Hindi sentence above, the following suggestions may be helpful.

How to use the search on this site?

The search box is a powerful way to search dictionary entries. You only need to type in your query in Hindi or in English. There is no need to use any signs like ‘+’ or "AND" to create search strings. If there is a space in your query, then just give space.

The only wild characters you can use are "%" and "_". The sign "%" will match any number of characters. For example, searching for A%pt will match words like abrupt, adept, adopt etc. If you use "_" as a wild character, it will match a single character. For example, searching for a_e will match ale, ace, ape etc.

When you perform a search, then the search system looks for an exact match. If your search matches over ten words, then the results are limited to first ten matches. You should modify your query to reduce the number of matches.

During search, the search engine also looks for words that sound similar to your query. On the result page, it suggests some of the such words. You can click on any of these suggested words to see its meaning. This feature is available only for English queries at this time.

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