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| + | [[Umê]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[དབུ་མེད་]]}}, [[Wylie]]: [[dbu-med]], IPA: [umɛ̂]; variant spellings include [[ume]], [[u-me]]) is a cursive [[form]] of the [[Tibetan alphabet]]. | ||
| − | + | The [[name]] means "headless," and is a style of the [[script]] used for both {{Wiki|calligraphy}} and shorthand. | |
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| + | A {{Wiki|distinctive}} feature of [[umê]] compared to [[uchen]] is the absence of the horizontal guide line across the top of the letters. Between {{Wiki|syllables}}, the [[tseg]] mark ({{BigTibetan|་}}) often appears as a vertical stroke. | ||
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| + | There are two main kinds of [[umê]] [[writing]]: | ||
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| − | Zhuza ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|འབྲུ་ཙ་}}, [[Wylie]]: 'bru-tsa), used for [[writing]] documents. | + | [[Zhuza]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|འབྲུ་ཙ་}}, [[Wylie]]: '[[bru-tsa]]), used for [[writing]] documents. |
| − | Bêcug ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|དཔེ་ཚུགས་}}, [[Wylie]]: dpe-tshugs), used for [[writing]] [[scriptures]]. | + | [[Bêcug]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|དཔེ་ཚུགས་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[dpe-tshugs]]), used for [[writing]] [[scriptures]]. |
</poem> | </poem> | ||
There is also a block [[form]] of the [[Tibetan alphabet]], containing a horizontal line, referred to as [[uchen]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|དབུ་ཅན་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[dbu-can]], "with a head"). | There is also a block [[form]] of the [[Tibetan alphabet]], containing a horizontal line, referred to as [[uchen]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|དབུ་ཅན་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[dbu-can]], "with a head"). | ||
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| + | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%C3%AA_script | ||
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Revision as of 22:14, 21 December 2016
Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med, IPA: [umɛ̂]; variant spellings include ume, u-me) is a cursive form of the Tibetan alphabet.
The name means "headless," and is a style of the script used for both calligraphy and shorthand.
A distinctive feature of umê compared to uchen is the absence of the horizontal guide line across the top of the letters. Between syllables, the tseg mark (་) often appears as a vertical stroke.
There are two main kinds of umê writing:
Zhuza (Tibetan: འབྲུ་ཙ་, Wylie: 'bru-tsa), used for writing documents.
Bêcug (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཚུགས་, Wylie: dpe-tshugs), used for writing scriptures.
There is also a block form of the Tibetan alphabet, containing a horizontal line, referred to as uchen (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can, "with a head").
