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A trailing outstroke, as in j y J Q R is a tail. The inferior diagonal stroke in K is a leg. [9] The bottom of the two-story g is a loop; the very short stroke at the top is the ear. [10] The letters i j each have a dot or tittle. [10] A short horizontal stroke, as in the center of e f and the middle stroke of E F, is a bar.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Letter names for unambiguous communication Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet. Alphabetic code words A lfa N ovember B ravo O scar C harlie P apa D elta Q uebec E cho R omeo F oxtrot S ierra G olf T ango H otel U niform I ndia V ictor J uliett W hiskey K ilo X ray L ...
Q.E.D. or QED is an initialism of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "that which was to be demonstrated". Literally, it states "what was to be shown". [ 1 ] Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is ...
The four other explicitly approved rising and falling diacritic combinations are high/mid rising [e᷄], low rising [e᷅], high falling [e᷇], and low/mid falling [e᷆]. [ note 31 ] The Chao tone letters, on the other hand, may be combined in any pattern, and are therefore used for more complex contours and finer distinctions than the ...
Descenders are parts of a character that lie below the baseline. In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the baseline of a font. For example, in the letter y, the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...
The "q"'s descender is usually typed without a swash due to the major style difference typically seen between the descenders of the "g" (a loop) and "q" (vertical). When handwritten, or as part of a handwriting font, the descender of the "q" sometimes finishes with a rightward swash to distinguish it from the letter "g" (or, particularly in ...
Several versions exist covering the alphabet backward, i.e., Z to A. One version is shown below. z-y-x and(/&) w v-u-t, s-r-q p-o-n-m-l-k-j i-h-g-f-e-d-c-b-a Now you know your ZYXs I bet that's not what you expected! [11] The e-d-c-b part is as fast as the l-m-n-o part in the normal alphabet song.