headstroke

English

Etymology

From head +‎ stroke.

Noun

headstroke (plural headstrokes)

1. A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
2. (linguistics) In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.
   • 2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:

     The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.

See also

• overbar