June 2011
21 posts
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Tamil Year Sign
The Tamil script is a script that is used to write the Tamil language as well as other minority languages such as Badaga, Irulas, and Paniya. With the use of diacritics to represent aspirated and voiced consonants not represented in the basic script, it is also used to write Saurashtra and, by Tamils, to write Sanskrit. - Wikipedia
May 2011
20 posts
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Universal Recycling Symbol
Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin...
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OCR Customer Account Number
In the early days of computer optical character recognition, there was a need for a font that could be recognized by the computers of that day, and by humans. The resulting compromise was the OCR-A font, which used simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. The font is monospaced (fixed-width), with the printer required to place glyphs 0.254 cm (0.10 inch) apart, and the reader...
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Old Italic Letter Esh
Old Italic refers to several now extinct alphabet systems used on the Italian Peninsula in ancient times for various Indo-European languages (predominantly Italic) and non-Indo-European (e.g. Etruscan) languages. The alphabets derive from the Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.
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Double Circled Digit Seven
In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs’ main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the character more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the character from a 6-look-alike into an uppercase...
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Counting Rod Tens Digit Eight
Counting rods are small bars, typically 3–14 cm long, used by mathematicians for calculation in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. They are placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any number and any fraction. The written forms based on them are called rod numerals. They are a true positional numeral system with digits for 1-9 and later also for 0.
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Yi Radical Shop
For use in dictionary classification. - Wikipedia
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Set Minus
If A and B are sets, then the relative complement of A in B, also known as the set-theoretic difference of B and A, is the set of elements in B, but not in A. The relative complement of A in B is denoted B ∖ A according to the ISO 31-11 standard (sometimes written B − A, but this notation is ambiguous, as in some contexts it can be interpreted as the set of all b − a, where b is taken from B...
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Frivolous; Flippant; Capricious; Playful
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim. Lacking respect or seriousness, showing levity; pert. Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner. Prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive. - Wiktionary
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Roman Numeral Ten Thousand
Sometimes 500, usually D, was written as I followed by Ɔ, while 1,000, usually M, was written as CIƆ. Sometimes CIƆ was reduced to a lemniscate symbol (ↀ) for denoting 1,000. Similarly, 5,000 (IƆƆ) was reduced to ↁ; and 10,000 (CCIƆƆ) was reduced to ↂ.- Wikipedia
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Latin Letter Ain
Phonetic scripts, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) make use of letters from other writing systems: most notably Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. - Wikipedia
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Watch
A watch is small timepiece, typical worn either on the wrist or attached on a chain and carried in a pocket, with wristwatches being the most common type of watch used today - Wikipedia
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Braille Pattern Dots-12568
In Unicode the Braille characters are not defined into any script. That is, the patterns are available as symbols, without connection to an alphabetic letter or a number. This is because the same symbol can be used in multiple scripts, e.g. as a Latin character, a Vietnamese character, a Chinese character and a digit. The coding is in accordance with ISO/TR 11548-1 Communication aids for blind...
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Mongolian Digit Six
Mongolian script was the first of many writing systems created for the Mongolian language and the most successful until the introduction of Cyrillic to Mongolia in 1946. With minor modification, the classic vertical script is used in Inner Mongolia to this day to write both Mongolian and the Evenki language. - Wikipedia
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Presentation Form For Vertical Right White...
The presentation form for vertical right white lenticular brakcet[sic] is a compatibility character for GB 18030, the official character set of the People’s Republic of China. The misspelling of “bracket” in the character name is a known defect. The character is a vertical form of RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET (U+3017). - Unicode.org, Wikipedia
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Bopomofo Letter An
Zhuyin Fuhao, often abbreviated zhuyin and colloquially called bopomofo, was introduced in the 1910s as the first official phonetic system for transcribing Chinese, especially Mandarin. Consisting of 37 characters and four tone marks, it transcribes all possible sounds in Mandarin. Despite being phased out on China in the 1950s, this system is still widely used as an educational tool and...
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Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyas
With ༺, a bracket. - Unicode.org
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Deseret Capital Letter Es
The Deseret alphabet (𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻) is a sound-based alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. - Wikipedia
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Yi Syllable Ie
Modern Yi (ꆈꌠꁱꂷ) is a standardized syllabary derived from the classic script in 1974 by the local Chinese government. It was made the official script of the Liangshan (Cool Mountain) dialect of the Yi language in 1980. Other dialects of Yi do not yet have a standardized script. There are 756 basic glyphs based on the Liangshan dialect, plus 63 for syllables only used for words borrowed from...
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Scruple
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. - Wiktionary
