headstroke en · NOUN
Etymology
From head + stroke.
Meanings
- A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
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In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.
The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.
2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| headstrokes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |