May 2011
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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
April 2011
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Hangul Letter Hieuh
Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language. ㅎ, which represents the “h” sound, is derived from ㆆ with the extra stroke representing a stronger flow of the aspiration.
- Wikipedia
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Euler Constant
Euler’s number (2.7182818284…) goes by many names such as epsilon, the exponential number, and Napiers number.
- Rick Howard
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Hyphen With Diaeresis
Indicate an umlaut of the stem vowel of a plural form, found mostly in German dictionaries.- Unicode
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Versicle
A versicle is the first half of one of a set of preces, said or sung by an officiant or cantor and answered with a said or sung response by the congregation or choir. - Wikipedia
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Rightwards Squiggle Arrow
A right “zigzag” arrow. A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular. - ISOAMSA , Wikipedia
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Postal Mark Face
〒 (郵便マーク Yūbin māku?) is the service mark of Japan Post, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark. The mark is stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信 communications). The mark dates from the pre-World War II era, when literacy was less complete, the katakana symbol being more easily recognized than a kanji.
- Wikipedia
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Rial Sign
The rial is the currency of Iran. There is no official symbol for the currency but the Iranian standard ISIRI 820 defined a symbol for use on typewriters (mentioning that it is an invention of the standards committee itself) and the two Iranian standards ISIRI 2900 and ISIRI 3342 define a character code to be used for it.
- Wikipedia
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Reference Mark
The rice symbol (komejirushi, 米印) is used in notes (chū, 注) as a reference mark, similar to an asterisk.
- Wikipedia
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Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol
Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) specifies the standards used for industrial activities in Japan. The standardization process is coordinated by Japanese Industrial Standards Committee and published through Japanese Standards Association.
- Wikipedia
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Canadian Syllabics Naskapi Woo
Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. The Naskapi are the indigenous Innu inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of what other Canadians refer to as eastern Quebec and Labrador,...
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Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Staters
The earliest alphabet-related system of numerals used with the Greek letters was a set of the acrophonic Attic numerals, operating much like Roman numerals. Acrophony is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter’s name begins with the letter itself. The stater was an ancient coin used in various regions of Greece.
- Wikipedia
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Armenian Small Ligature Men Xeh
The Armenian alphabet is an alphabet that has been used to write the Armenian language since the year 405 or 406. It was devised by Saint Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader, and contained originally 36 letters. Ancient Armenian manuscripts used many ligatures to save space. After the invention of printing Armenian typefaces made a wide use of ligatures as...
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Gurmukhi Letter Ai
Gurmukhi is the most common script used for writing the Punjabi language. For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies would take place and Punjabi is the most spoken language in Pakistan. - Wikipedia
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Ogham Letter Uilleann
Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language, and occasionally the Brythonic language. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet”, based on a High Medieval Bríatharogam tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters. - Wikipedia
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Hryvnia Sign
The hryvnia has been the national currency of Ukraine since September 2, 1996. The hryvnia is subdivided into 100 kopiyok. In Medieval times it was a currency of Kievan Rus. - Wikipedia
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White Scissors
Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978 and licensed by International Typeface Corporation. Scissors are hand-operated cutting instruments. They consist of a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. - Wikipedia
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Shavian Letter Or
The Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
- Wikipedia
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Ideographic Description Character Overlaid
Not included within the Han script are CJK Strokes and Ideographic Description Characters, which are both classified as “common” by Unicode. This makes sense as other (not yet encoded) scripts such as Tangut, Jurchen and Greater Khitan can all be analysed using ideographic description sequences. - BabelStone
