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A sign of letters left out.
Also known as: Tibetan abbreviation mark
The Tibetan mark showing that a word or phrase has been contracted in writing.
Marks a contraction, in which several syllables are compressed into one written stack.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Contracts by stacking rather than by truncating, so the omitted letters remain present in the glyph — closer to a scribal ligature than to an abbreviation, and a reason contracted Tibetan can be expanded unambiguously where a Latin abbreviation often cannot.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A mark written with the retained letters, commonly stacking elements of the omitted syllables vertically rather than deleting them outright.