For the cycling term Bicycling terminology For the climbing equipment Belay device Unreferenced date December 2009 Image Typography Line Terms.svg thumb 390px The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline. Wiktionary In typography , a descender is the portion of a grapheme letter that extends below the Baseline typography baseline of a typeface font . For example, in the letter y , the descender would be the tail, or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging. In the letter p at right, it is the stem reaching down past the o . In most fonts, descenders are reserved for lowercase characters such as g , j , q , p , and y . Some fonts, however, also use descenders for some Numerical digit numerals typically 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , and 9 . Such numerals are called old style numeral s. Some Italic type italic fonts, such as Computer Modern Computer Modern italic , put a descender on the numeral 4 but not on any other numerals. Such fonts are not considered old style. Some fonts also use descenders for the tails on a few uppercase letters such as J and Q . The parts of characters that extend above the x height of a font are called ascender typography ascenders . THIS IS NOT A STUB, BUT A SHORT ARTICLE. DO NOT ADD A STUB MESSAGE. Typography terms Category Typography ca Asta descendent cs P smov osnova de Liniensystem Typografie fr Jambage it Tratto discendente nl Staartletter sr sv Underh ng zh ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image Hdescender.png right H with descender is a letter of the Latin alphabet , derived from H with the addition of a small descender . It was used in Uyghur language Uighur to represent IPAblink h English h , while a regular H was used to represent IPAblink x German language German ch in ach . This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when the Latin alphabet was introduced for writing Uighur to replace the Arabic alphabet , up until 1984 86 when the Latin alphabet was phased out and the official script was changed back to Arabic again. The equivalent Arabic letter is . Computer encoding was added to Unicode in version 5.0 2006 , as U 2C67 uppercase and U 2C68 lowercase . See also Latin letters K with descender Z with descender unicode Heng letter Heng Cyrillic letters Unicode En with descender Cyrillic En with descender Unicode Kha with descender Latin alphabet H DEFAULTSORT H With Descender Category Uncommon Latin letters ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Ge with descender Image Image CYRILLIC LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER.PNG 170px uuc 04F6 ulc 04F7 Ge with descender majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Abkhaz language Abkhaz , Siberian Yupik language Siberian Yupik in Russia , as well as Nivkh language Nivkh and Saru language Saru . It somewhat has a softer sound of . Example of the Saru language Unicode aa , which means freedom . DEFAULTSORT Ge With Descender Cyrillic alphabet stub bg cs de fr xal it mk ja ru uk zh ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Te with descender Image Image Cyrillic letter Te with Descender.svg 100px uuc 04AC ulc 04AD Te with descender majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz language Abkhaz , where it represents the apsirated consonant IPA t . DEFAULTSORT Te With Descender Cyrillic alphabet stub br lizherenn bg cs de fr xal it cirillico mk ja ru udm uk zh ... more details
Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter br Shha with descender Image uuc 0526 ulc 0527 Shha with descender , is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Azebaijani Cyrillic alphabet of Tat language Caucasus Tati , and Juhuri language Juhuri . ref name n3481 Lorna A. Priest, http www.dkuug.dk jtc1 SC2 WG2 docs n3481.pdf Proposal to Encode Additional Latin and Cyrillic Characters , 23 April 2008 ref This originally derives from Latin alphabet Latin H with a descender, but the majuscule form is more similar to an inverted che Cyrillic che . Its sound value is a Glottal stop voiceless glottal plosive , IPAblink . ref name n3481 Notes and references references External links http www.fileformat.info info unicode char 0526 index.htm Unicode definition Category Cyrillic letters ... more details
K with descender Majuscule unicode , Minuscule unicode sometimes falsely rendered as Unicode k or Unicode is a Latin letter that was used in the Uighur language Uyghur Pinyin Y ziqi UPNY until it was changed back to the Arabic alphabet. It is very easily confused with the Cyrillic letter . Latin alphabet writingsystem stub Category Uncommon Latin letters fr ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter br Kha with descender Image Image CYRILLIC LETTER HA WITH DESCENDER.PNG 170px uuc 04B2 ulc 04B3 Kha with descender or soft kha majuscule , Lower case minuscule is a Letter alphabet letter of certain Cyrillic alphabet s such as Abkhaz language Abkhaz , Karakalpak language Karakalpak , Khakas language Khakas , Tajik alphabet Tajik , also pre 1992 Uzbek language Uzbek now the Latin alphabet Latin script in use . In Abkhaz, it represents IPA , and in Karakalpak, Tajik, and Uzbek, IPA h . In the Itelmen language Itelmen , Nivkh language Nivkh and Saru language Saru languages it is used to represent the IPA sound. Cyrillic alphabet stub br lizherenn bg cs de fr xal it cirillico mk ja ru udm uk zh ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Che with descender Image Image Cyrillic letter Che with Descender.svg 100px uuc 04B6 ulc 04B7 Che with descender majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is a letter of Tajik Cyrillic alphabet to represent the affricate IPA d like the J in English j ump . It corresponds to digraph orthography digraphs or or letters Dzhe or Unicode Zhje from some other Cyrillic alphabets. It is Romanization of Tajik transliterated as in ISO 9 . also appears in the Abkhaz alphabet , where it represents the an ejective affricate IPA t see Abkhaz phonology . In Abkhaz, it is transliterated as . Citation needed date December 2008 Khakas language Khakas and Azerbaijani language Azeri use the similar letters Khakassian Che Unicode and Che with vertical stroke Unicode for the same purpose. See also D Dzhe Unicode , used for the same sound in Serbian language Serbian and Macedonian language Macedonian Zhe with diaeresis Unicode , Zhe with breve Unicode , further Cyrillic letters also used to write IPA d DEFAULTSORT Che With Descender bg cs et fr it ja ru udm uk zh ... more details
Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter br Abkhazian Che with descender Image Image CYRILLIC LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE WITH DESCENDER.PNG 100px uuc 04BE ulc 04BF The Abkhazian Che with descender majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is a Cyrillic letter currently used for the Abkhazian language , where it represents the phoneme IPAslink . ref cite book title The Alphabets of the Languages of the Peoples of the USSR year 1965 publisher Nauka Nauka Publishing House ref DEFAULTSORT Abkhazian Che With Descender Cyrillic alphabet stub Reflist br lizherenn bg cs de fr xal it mk ja pl pt ru udm uk zh ... more details
Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Pe with descender Image Image Cyrillic letter Pe with descender.PNG 170px uuc 0524 ulc 0525 Pe with descender majuscule unicode , Lower case minuscule unicode is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz language Abkhaz , where it represents the aspirated consonant IPA p . External links http std.dkuug.dk jtc1 sc2 wg2 docs n3435.pdf ISO IEC JTC1 SC2 WG2 N3435R http www.unicode.org charts PDF U0500.pdf http www.fontstock.com public PTSans.zip PT Sans and http www.fontstock.com public PTSerif.zip PT Serif fonts http dejavu fonts.org wiki index.php?title Download Deja Vu fonts bg cs ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter br En with descender Image Image Cyrillic letter Ng.svg 100px uuc 04A2 ulc 04A3 The Cyrillic letter En with descender , italics span style font family times, Times New Roman , serif font size larger , span is a non Slavic letter of the Cyrillic alphabet . It commonly represents the velar nasal IPA , like the English pronunciation of ng in si ng . The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as ng or . Usage The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages class wikitable Language name of letter Bashkir language Bashkir Dungan language Dungan Kalmyk language Kalmyk Kazakh language Kazakh Khakas language Khakas Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz Tatar language Tatar IPA e Turkmen language Turkmen Tuvan language Tuvan Uyghur language Uyghur See also En Cyrillic Cyrillic En En with hook Cyrillic En with hook En with tail Cyrillic En with tail Latin Eng letter Latin Eng File U A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 11px File U A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 8px EA 9E 90 Latin N with descender ba br lizherenn bg cs de xal it Ng cirillico mk ja ro Ng chirilic ru fi udm uk zh ... more details
Extender may refer to Ascender typography Ascender or descender , in typography and graphonomics DOS extender , a technology for bypassing the limitations of the DOS operating systems family KC 10 Extender , an air to air tanker aircraft Media extender Surimi , known as seafood extender Tele extender , a secondary lens for SLR cameras disambig de Extender ... more details
File Rolka stop.jpg thumb 400px A Petzl Stop descender. The dead man s handle is visible in red. A Petzl Stop is a Belay device Figure eight descender ref name autogenerated1 http www.petzl.com us outdoor descenders 0 stop ref used primarily in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl . Usage The Stop is for use with single ropes between 9 and 12 mm in diameter and is usually attached to the harness via a carabiner . The rope is then threaded through the cam and bobbin by undoing the safety clip and moving the swinging side plate to the side. The swinging side plate facilitates insertion and removal of the rope without the need to disconnect it from the harness, making it less likely to be dropped on long abseiling abseils . ref name autogenerated1 As the Stop is a self braking descender, it is possible to release the deadman s handle to stop the descent. This functionality allows the user to stop and maintain his position while abseiling. Standards EN 341 class A ref name autogenerated2 http www.petzl.com files all technical notice Sport D09 20STOP 20D09800 H.pdf ref CE 0197 ref name autogenerated2 References reflist Category Caving equipment ... more details
about the geological meaning of lineation Lineation geology the textual meaning of lineation Line break poetry Unreferenced date December 2009 In Western handwriting , the base line , the x height or corpus size , the height of the Ascender typography ascenders and the bottom line of the descender s make up four horizontal virtual lines which represent the lineation of handwriting. In many teaching methods of writing at primary school, these guidelines are actually present on paper to aid the child in producing well formed characters of the proper size. In adulthood the lineation remains, virtually, and can be used in handwriting recognition by performing an analysis of the horizontal density of minima and maxima of the writing trace. The density at the base line of handwriting will be highest, followed by the density of the corpus size . As Ascender typography ascenders and descender s occur only infrequently, their densities will be low, especially if a single word is considered. See also graphonomics Category Penmanship ... more details
Distinguish2 the letter Kha with descender . See this article Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Ha with hook uuc 04FC ulc 04FD Kha with hook Majuscule unicode , Majuscule unicode is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet that is used in the Itelmen language Itelmen , Nivkh language Nivkh and Saru language Saru languages to represent the IPA sound. The letter Kha with descender is sometimes used for this sound instead because of better font support. References http scripts.sil.org cms scrIpts render download.php?site id nrsi&format file&media id Cyrillic 2005 08 09&filename N2933.pdf Unicode proposal N2933 Category Cyrillic letters Cyrillic alphabet stub cs de ... more details
Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter En with tail Image Image Cyrillic letter En with Tail.svg 100px uuc 04C9 ulc 04CA En with tail Unicode Unicode italics span style font family times, Times New Roman , serif font size larger Unicode Unicode span is a non Slavic letter of the Cyrillic alphabet . It is used in Kildin Sami and Saru language Saru languages where it represents the voiceless alveolar nasal IPA n . See also En Cyrillic Cyrillic En En with hook Cyrillic En with hook En with descender Cyrillic Cyrillic En with descender Unicode Cyrillic ligature En Ge bg cs de xal it ru udm uk zh ... more details
unreferenced date February 2008 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic En with hook Image Image Cyrillic letter En with Hook.svg 100px uuc 04C7 ulc 04C8 En with hook Unicode Unicode italics span style font family times, Times New Roman , serif font size larger Unicode Unicode span is a non Slavic letter of the Cyrillic alphabet . It commonly represents the velar nasal IPA , like the pronunciation of ng in si ng . Usage En with hook is used in the alphabets of the following languages Even language Even Evenki language Evenki Khanty language Khanty Kildin Sami Mansi language Mansi Nenets languages Nenets Nivkh language Nivkh Old Selkup language Old Selkup until 1735 Saru language Saru See also En with descender Cyrillic Cyrillic En with descender En with tail Cyrillic En with tail Unicode Cyrillic ligature En Ge Eng letter Latin Eng bg cs de xal it cirillico mk ru uk zh ... more details
Lower case minuscule , Unicode codepoints U 2C6B and U 2C6C, respectively is a Latin alphabet Latin letter Z with a descender. It is used in Yengi Yezi pre 1983 romanization of the Uyghur language , transliterating IPAblink , a pre consonantal allophone of IPA d see unicode ona Yezi , but occurring independently in a few words of Russian, Persian or Western origin such as urnal from journal . Developers of the new Uyghur Latin Y ziqi ULY standard were divided between j and zh . See also Latin alphabet Category Uncommon Latin letters Z ... more details
align right style border 1px solid lightgrey padding 5px File U A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 126px File U A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 96px N with descender majuscule File U A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 11px , Lower case minuscule File U A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 8px is a letter of the Latin alphabet , used in several Uniform Turkic Alphabet orthographies in 1930s for instance, Tatar language Tatar Ja alif , as well as in the 1990s orthographies invented in attempts to restore the Latin alphabet for the Tatar language and the Chechen language . In the majority of languages this letter represented a velar nasal as in English si ng i ng . in Chechen language??? History Letter appeared in late 1920s in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet , however it was borrowed by some other non Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union during the Latinisation USSR Latinisation campaign. In 1990s the letter was used in Chechen language Chechen Latin alphabet, in 2000s it was used in the Tatar Latin alphabet ref http www.tatar.ru append200 a.html ref ref http www.tatar.ru ?DNSID 66f05395cc4c604dd7e0df536fd03f3f&node id 1312 ref , both of them however are not in wide use now. In the Chechen alphabet the majuscule looked similar to minuscule, but has a larger size. ref Lepiev A.S., Lepiev .A., T rk e e en e s zl k, Turkoy nox iy do am, Ankara, 2003 ref Computer encoding In Unicode , it is in the Latin Extended D range and it is encoded as U A790 small LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER small and U A791 small LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER small . References references See also Similar Latin letters unicode unicode unicode unicode unicode unicode Similar Cyrillic letters unicode unicode unicode External links http www.quivira font.com Quivira font . Currently one of the few that renders the letter correctly. Latin alphabet N diacritic DEFAULTSORT N descender Category Uncommon Latin l ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic ligature En Ge Image Image Cyrillic ligature En Ghe.svg 120px uuc 04A4 ulc 04A5 Ligature En Ge Unicode Unicode italics span style font family times, Times New Roman , serif font size larger Unicode Unicode span is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used only in non Slavic languages. It was also used in Old Selkup language until 1735 . The letter is a Typographic ligature ligature of the Cyrillic letters En Cyrillic En and Ge Cyrillic Ge . It represents the velar nasal IPA , like the English pronunciation of ng in si ng . Ligature En Ge is used in the Aleut language Aleut , Altai language Altai , Mari language Meadow Mari , and Sakha language Yakut alphabets. See also Letters representing a similar sound En with descender Cyrillic Cyrillic En with descender En with hook Cyrillic En with hook Eng letter Latin Eng File U A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 11px File U A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER.svg 8px EA 9E 90 Latin N with descender Category Cyrillic ligatures br lizherenn bg cs de xal it mk ja ru fi udm uk zh ... more details
SpecialChars File ThornwStroke.svg 100px right unicode Lower case minuscule unicode , or unicode Thorn letter thorn with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for Old English unicode t Modern English that , as well as Old Norse unicode or , the an an in s an ref AM 655, p1 recto , lines 4, 14, & 17 http gandalf.uib.no 8008 corpus document.xml?corpus menota&document AM655 XXX 1 0&position 0 0 0 0&mode facs&homepage corpus menota.xml ref , at , t , and ess . In Old English texts, the stroke tended to be more slanted, while in Old Norse texts it was straight. In Middle English times, the ascender of the was reduced making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn , Unicode , which caused the thorn with stroke abbreviation Image OE thaet.png to be replaced with a thorn with a small t above the letter Image ME that.png . Unicode encodes unicode as unichar A764 Latin Capital Letter Thorn With Stroke html , and unicode at unichar A765 Latin Small Letter Thorn With Stroke html . A thorn with a stroke on the descender also exists. The capital form is at codepoint unichar A766 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER html , and the minuscule form is at unichar A767 LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER html . See also References reflist cite web url http www.mufi.info proposals n3027 medieval.pdf title Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS format PDF author Michael Everson editor , Peter Baker et al date 30 January 2006 accessdate 5 September 2010 Andrew West , http babelstone.blogspot.com 2006 07 whats that.html What s that? , an article about the proposal to add medievalist characters to the Universal Character Set UCS http www.fileformat.info info unicode char a764 index.htm Unicode Character Latin capital letter thorn with stroke U A764 http www.fileformat.info info unicode char a765 index.htm Unicode Character Latin small letter thorn with stroke U A765 typ stub Latin alphabet ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Shcha Image File Cyrillic letter Shcha uppercase and lowercase.svg 100px uuc 0429 ulc 0449 Shcha italics span style font family times, Times New Roman, serif font size larger span is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet . In Russian language Russian , it represents the voiceless alveolo palatal fricative IPA , similar to the pronunciation of sh in sh eep but gemination longer in Ukrainian language Ukrainian and Rusyn language Rusyn it represents the consonant cluster IPA t and in Bulgarian language Bulgarian , it represents the consonant cluster IPA t . In English, Shcha is Romanization of Russian romanized as shch or with Caron ha ek s , both reflecting the historical Russian pronunciation of the letter. This can lead to some confusion, as the ch in the transcription may seem to indicate that is a combination of Sha and a strong Che Cyrillic , which is not true. History The Cyrillic letter Shcha was derived from the Glagolitic alphabet Glagolitic letter Shta script Glag Image GlagolitsaShta.gif . The name of Shcha in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was Script Cyrs ta . Historically in Russian, Shcha represented the consonant cluster IPA t Citation needed date August 2009 , like in the phrase fre sh ch eese. Some Russian language primers still prescribe IPA t . Form The form of the letter Shcha is the letter Sha Cyrillic Sha with a descender cf. the Cyrillic letters De Cyrillic De , Tse Cyrillic Tse , Qaf Cyrillic Qaf , and En with descender Cyrillic En with descender . Encodings unichar 0429 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA html unichar 0449 CYRILLIC small LETTER SHCHA html See also columns col1 Sha Cyrillic Sha col2 Wiktionary Category Cyrillic letters Category Cyrillic ligatures ar av ba br bg ca cv cs de et es eo a cirila alfabeto fa fr xal ko it he ka ht ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Dhe Image Image Cyrillic letter Dhe.png uuc 0498 ulc 0499 Ze with descender or Dhe majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is a Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language . The letter is pronounced in English th is voiced dental fricative IPA . Cyrillic alphabet stub ba br lizherenn bg cs de fr xal it Dhe cirillico he mk ja ro Dhe chirilic ru fi udm uk zh ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading Cyrillic letter Zhje Image Image Cyrillic letter Zhje.svg 130px uuc 0496 ulc 0497 The Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic letter Zhe with descender, or Zhje majuscule Unicode , Lower case minuscule Unicode is used as a letter in the Tatar language Tatar , Kalmyk language Kalmyk and Dungan language Dungan alphabet s. It was also used in Turkmen language Turkmen before that language switched to the Latin alphabet. See also Category Tatar language Typography stub Cyrillic alphabet stub br lizherenn bg cs de xal it mk ja pl pt ru fi udm uk zh ... more details
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