Aum (also Om, written in Devanagari as ॐ, in Chinese as 唵, in Tibetan as ༀ, in Sanskrit known as praṇava प्रणव lit. \"to sound out loudly\" or oṃkāra ओंकार lit. \"oṃ syllable\") is a mystical or sacred syllable in the Indian religions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism. It is pronounced as a long or over-long nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel (IPA [oːⁿ]). It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred exclamation to be uttered at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or previously to any prayer or mantra. The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. The syllable is taken to consist of three phonemes, a, u and m, variously symbolizing the Three Vedas or the Hindu Trimurti. The name omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj. Similarly, the
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