headstroke
nounEtymology From head + stroke.
1
A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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:
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