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Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med, IPA: [ume]; variant spellings include ume, u-me) is: a semi-formal script used to write the: Tibetan alphabet used for both calligraphy and "shorthand." The name ume 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 tseg 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-tsa), used for writing documents.
- Bêtsug (Tibetan: དཔེ་ཚུགས་, Wylie: dpe-tshugs), used for writing scriptures.
Other Tibetan scripts include the upright block form, uchen (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can; IPA: [utɕɛ̃]) and the everyday, handwritten cursive, gyug yig (Tibetan: རྒྱུག་ཡིག་, Wylie: rgyug-yig). The name of the block form, uchen means "with a head", corresponding to the presence of the horizontal guide line.
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