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(obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
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(linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
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(historical) The highly simplified and cursive ancient Egyptian script that developed from Upper Egyptian hieratic writing from around 1100 BCE until its supersession by its Lower Egyptian counterpart Demotic around 650 BCE.
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(linguistics) A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
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An organizing principle for written lists, based on initial glyphs.
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(poetry) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.
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A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
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Acrostic arrangement or character.
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(countable) The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng.
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A segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary; an abugida.
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Relating to an alphasyllabary, or abugida.
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A design that may be read as the same word, name or phrase (or sometimes two different words, names or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.
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Pertaining to the representation of an existing item in words or symbols.
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The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
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A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
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(typography) a grapheme which represents any of several graphemes (often causing ambiguity), by analogy with the archiphoneme, which represents several phonemes.
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written in two different scripts
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Any of the ideographs in the Blissymbols language.
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A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
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An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).
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Alternative form of calligraph [To write using calligraphy.]
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Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
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(obsolete) A magical symbol.
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(Egyptian hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
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(archaic) A magical symbol.
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a glyph with no agreed semantic or phonetic value, generally formed by deforming a letter of the Greek alphabet or a simple geometric symbol via one of several predefined processes, used as part of magical texts in the Hellenistic world
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A monogram that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a Christian symbol, such as the chi-rho (☧).
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A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
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The symbol ©, a circumscribed letter c, indicating that a work is copyrighted.
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An obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.
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Written in the cuneiform writing system.
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Alternative spelling of cuneiform [An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.]
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(chiefly of abjad script) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
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Any of various symbols carved into tree trunks by native peoples.
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A graphic made up of text characters to represent such emotion; a smiley.
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(rare) An inner mesocuneiform
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(obsolete) An inscription in stone.
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inscriptions collectively
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A talisman bearing a word, number or diagram rather than an image.
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A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.
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(chiefly archaeology) A large-scale drawing or image made on the ground by arranging lines of stones, scratching the earth, etc., and often only fully visible from a distance or the air.
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A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but always using one symbol to represent one sound.
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A particular phonetic writing system.
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A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
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One who carries out glyphography.
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(shorthand) symbol, letter or letters that stand for a whole word
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(linguistics, typography) A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
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In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
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A written inkling of a name in a writing system incompletely rendering the phonological system of a language.
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Any system of rules concerning the order and arrangement of letters in the words of a particular language (such as "I before E except after C")
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A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
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An instance of haplography in a text.
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The spelling of a foreign language used as a logogram/ideogram.
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(linguistics) A specific sequence of six letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
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(historical) A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
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An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system.
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A writer of hieroglyphics.
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Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
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Related to or resembling hieroglyphs; hieroglyphic.
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Obsolete form of hieroglyphic. [(chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus]
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A miscapitalization of hieroglyphics, used as a proper noun because of the false assumption by many that hieroglyphics (i.e. Egyptian hieroglyphics) is itself a language.
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One versed in hieroglyphs.
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The study of hieroglyphics.
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The use of hieroglyphics.
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Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.
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One skilled in hieroglyphics.
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A picture formed by a word or words.
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(computing) A graphical symbol, usually automatically generated, representing some entity for easy visual identification.
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A symbol expressing an idea.
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A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.
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Rare spelling of ideogram. [A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.]
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The system of writing in ideographic characters.
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A mark or signature peculiar to an individual.
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An abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram
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Of or pertaining to inscription.
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(phonology, now disused) A dipping tone.
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A word or phrase in which each letter occurs the same number of times.
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(sociolinguistics) A line indicating the geographical boundaries within which a particular feature of a written script is used.
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Obsolete form of italic. [(typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.]
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(uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
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(informal) A Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short: a widely-used Latin English dictionary.
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The infinity symbol (∞).
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A stylized lion motif or icon mainly found in Sinospheric and Indospheric regions' architectures.
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(historical) Referring to a type of musical notation used by Shakers, based on letters instead of notes.
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Resembling or characteristic of a letter (written communication).
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(psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
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The use of letters to represent sounds, words, etc., in a language.
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(sciences) A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements.
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A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.
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a character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.
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A Chinese character or recognizable subunit of a character, such as a stroke or radical.
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A kind of puzzle where a series of verses give clues leading to a particular word.
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(palaeography, epigraphy) a taller variant of the letter i used in Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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A non-empty string that is strictly smaller in lexicographic order than all of its rotations.
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(obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
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(phonology) A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts.
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An acrostic that spells out a word or message with its middle letters.
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(archaic) The art of writing sign language by means of pictorial symbols constituting ideographs.
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An ornamental tail that completes certain letters in D'Nealian handwriting.
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(obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.
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Obsolete spelling of monogram [(obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.]
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A person who uses a monogram instead of a signature
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Relating to a single written script.
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Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
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(uncountable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
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(rare) A form of the letter o modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ǫ⟩, used in Old Norse.
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A single character in this alphabet.
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A graphical representation of an ontology (branch of knowledge)
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(orthography) The set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.
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(uncountable) The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
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The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct poetry.
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A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
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Of, pertaining to, or written in paragraphs.
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(linguistics) A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.
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(Wicca) A circumscribed pentagram.
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A writing system used to unambiguously transcribe the sounds of human speech.
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A name as it is thought to have been pronounced, rather than how it is commonly written. Used with languages such as Epigraphic Mayan where the conventional transcription of the name does not reflect the pronunciation.
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(linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.
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Rare spelling of phonogram. [(linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.]
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A symbol that represents a phrase.
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A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
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Rare spelling of pictogram. [A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.]
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A pictograph or hieroglyph.
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Alternative form of pictographic [Represented by pictures.]
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writing in pictographs; hieroglyphics
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(chiefly of abjad script) Written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
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Any group of letters treated as a single item.
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(art) Describing any of several stylistic or expressive devices, especially in contemporary western calligraphy, employing repetition of words or phrases.
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(countable) A table in a reference work explaining the symbols that it uses to represent the pronunciation of its entries.
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Describing an early system of Sumerian writing that developed into cuneiform
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Any of the early systems of symbols that developed into writing.
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(computing) Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based.
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(linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
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The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
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(linguistics) The idea of using ideograms as phonograms representing the sounds of the words expressed by the original ideograms.
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A monogram of a monarch, used as an identifying mark to indicate state or sovereign authority.
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A semantic symbol (picture or glyph) associated with a concept.
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Any system of writing that uses graphemes which denote meaningful elements of speech.
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Synonym of semi-syllabary
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A writing system that uses a combined alphabet and syllabary
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Of or relating to a style of writing Chinese characters, not as abbreviated as cursive.
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(programming) A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.
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One who is involved in sigillography.
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The set of characters in a writing system: alphabet, syllabary, etc.
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Any character used in Chinese writing.
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A type of ambigram in which a word is written using the same glyph repeated in different orientations.
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In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
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A statistical method of analyzing a text to determine its author.
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(orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.
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A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
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Obsolete form of symbol. [A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.]
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A form of shorthand in scientific or mathematic calculations.
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A text in which all words start with the same letter (but not necessarily the same sound).
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An acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.
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A type of swastika, especially a stylized one used in Mayan art.
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(linguistics) A symbol used to indicate tones in tonal languages.
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An obsolete letter (Ꜫ, ꜫ) used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a uvular ejective.
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enthusiasm for typography
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Modified by the addition of an umlaut.
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(typography) Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case. Mkhedruli inscription from Mount Athos. It is unicameral – it does not distinguish between upper and lower case.]]
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A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
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made up of thin lines or strokes, usually with reference to an alphabet or writing system
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(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
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Writing predominantly featuring the use of wedge-shaped characters; cuneiform
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(education) A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.
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(linguistics, specifically) The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.
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A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y.
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A pictograph or ideogram that is used as the standard representation of a specific word.
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