Umê script
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Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-medCategory:Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text, IPA: [ume]Category:Pages with Standard Tibetan IPA; variant spellings include umé, u-me) is a semi-formal script used to write the Tibetan alphabet used for both calligraphy and shorthand.[1] The name umê means "headless" and refers to its distinctive feature: the absence of the horizontal guide line ('head') across the top of the letters. Between syllables, the tsheg mark (་) often appears as a vertical stroke, rather than the shorter 'dot'-like mark in some other scripts. There are two main kinds of umê writing:
- Drutsa (Tibetan: འབྲུ་ཚ་, Wylie: 'bru-tsaCategory:Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text), used for writing documents.
- Bêtsug (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཚུགས་, Wylie: dpe-tshugsCategory:Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text), used for writing scriptures.
Other Tibetan scripts include the upright block form, uchen (དབུ་ཅན་ dbu-canCategory:Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text; IPA: [utɕɛ̃]Category:Pages with Standard Tibetan IPA) and the everyday, handwritten cursive, gyug yig (རྒྱུག་ཡིག་ rgyug-yigCategory:Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text). The name of the block form, uchen means "with a head", corresponding to the presence of the horizontal guide line.
See also
References
- ↑ Chen, Jinhua (2024-02-08). Esoteric Buddhism and Texts: Volume I, Manuscript Culture and Transborder Transmission. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-003-85355-8.
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