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A heaped-jewel bar.
Also known as: Heaped jewels bar
The ornamented Tibetan closing bar used at the end of major divisions in formal texts.
Closes a major division in a formal or liturgical Tibetan text.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Raises the register of the punctuation rather than its structural level: the ornament signals that the text is important, a device the Latin tradition has no punctuational equivalent for.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A vertical stroke thickened or built up with small repeated elements along its length, suggesting stacked jewels.