Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med, IPA: [ume]; variant spellings include umé, u-me) is a family of stylistic variants of the Tibetan alphabet used for both calligraphy and shorthand. 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.
Umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med, IPA: [ume]; variant spellings include umé, u-me) is a family of stylistic variants of the Tibetan alphabet used for both calligraphy and shorthand. 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.
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