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Two Men Holding Hands

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:12:00 -0700

A same-sex relationship is a relationship between two persons of the same gender and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic close relationships. The term is mainly associated with gay and lesbian people. In their essential psychological respects, these relationships are regarded as equivalent to heterosexual relationships. - Wikipedia

Buginese Letter La

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:09:05 -0700

The Buginese script is an Brahmic script traditionally used for the Bugis language, Makassarese language, and Mandar languages of Sulawesi in modern Indonesia. In Buginese, this script is called “urupu sulapa eppa” which means “four-corner letters”. The Bugis are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, the southwestern province of Sulawesi, Indonesia’s third largest island. -

Spesmilo Sign

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0700

The spesmilo is an obsolete decimal international currency, proposed in 1907 by René de Saussure and used before the First World War by a few British and Swiss banks, primarily the Ĉekbanko esperantista. The spesmilo was equivalent to one thousand spesoj, and worth 0.733 grams of gold. The ₷ character is a monogram of a cursive capital “S”, from the tail of which emerges an “m”. - Wikipedia

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-1

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:08:04 -0700

Ancient Greek musical notation was capable of representing pitch and note-duration, and to a limited extent, harmony. It was in use from at least the 6th century BC until approximately the 4th century AD; several complete compositions and fragments of compositions using this notation survive. The notation consists of symbols placed above text syllables. - Wikipedia

Division Sign

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:15:47 -0700

An obelus (÷) (plural, obeli) is a symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and below. It is mainly used to represent the mathematical operation of division. It is therefore commonly referred to as the division sign. The word “obelus” comes from the Greek word for a sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar. This is the same root as that of the word “obelisk”. - Wikipedia

Father Christmas

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:30:31 -0700

Father Christmas is the name used in many English-speaking countries for a symbolic figure associated with Christmas. Father Christmas typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, but was neither a gift bringer nor particularly associated with children. Father Christmas often appears as a large man, often around 70 years old. - Wikipedia

Glagolitic Capital Letter Dobro

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:42:05 -0700

The Glagolitic alphabet, also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. The letter dobro (Ⰴ) is thought to originate from the greek delta (Δ) and means “kindness” or “good”. - Wikipedia

Cham Letter Nga

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:34:05 -0700

Cham is the language of the Cham people of Southeast Asia, and formerly the language of the kingdom of Champa in central Vietnam. The Cham script is a descendant of the Brahmi script of India, itself a descendant of the Aramaic script. - Wikipedia

Cherokee Letter S

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:49:33 -0700

Cherokee is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system invented by Sequoyah. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy in that he could not previously read any script. Each of the characters represents one syllable, such as in the Japanese kana and the Bronze Age Greek Linear B writing systems. - Wikipedia

Rejang Section Mark

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:31:00 -0700

The Rejang live mainly on the southwest coast of the island of Sumatra, on the cool mountain slopes of the Barisan mountain range, in the province of Bengkulu, Indonesia. The traditional Rejang corpus consists chiefly of ritual texts, medical incantations, and poetry. - Wikipedia

Symbol For Delete Form Two

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:31:06 -0700

From ISO 9995-7, the keyboard symbol for an undoable delete. - Unicode

Nko Symbol Gbakurunen

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:25:48 -0700

The gbakurunen represents the three stones which hold a cooking pot over the fire, and is used to end major sections of text. - Fotolog

Domino Tile Horizontal-03-05

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:37:43 -0700

The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 120 dominoes, colloquially nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. - Wikipedia

Avestan Letter Nne

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:00:06 -0700

The development of the Avestan alphabet was initiated by the need to correctly represent recited Avestan language texts. The various text collections that today constitute the canon of Zoroastrian scripture are the result of a collation that occurred in the 4th century, probably during the reign of Shapur II (309–379). - Wikipedia

Egyptian Hieroglyph G053

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:30:06 -0700

A hieroglyph used as a logogram defines the object of which it is an image. bꜣ, meaning “Bâ” (soul); the character is the traditional representation of a “bâ” (a bird with a human head). - Wikipedia

Box Drawings Up Single and Horizontal Double

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:31:06 -0700

Box drawing characters, also known as line drawing characters, or pseudographics, are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces these characters are much less useful, because it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs; besides, box drawing characters work only with fixed-width (monospaced) fonts. They are still useful, however, for plaintext comments on websites. - Wikipedia

Georgian Letter He

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:31:06 -0700

The Georgian alphabet is the writing system used to write the Georgian language and other Kartvelian languages. “He” (ჱ) is sometimes called “ei” or “e-merve” (“eighth e”). As in Ancient Greek (Ηη, Ͱͱ, ēta), it holds the eighth place in the Georgian alphabet. The name and shapes of the letter in Asomtavruli ‹Ⴡ› and Nuskhuri ‹ⴡ› also resemble Greek’s tack-shaped archaic consonantal heta. - Wikipedia

See-No-Evil Monkey

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:31:06 -0700

The three wise monkeys embody the proverbial principle to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. - Wikipedia

Musical Symbol G Clef

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:31:00 -0700

When the G-clef is placed on the second line of the staff, it is called the treble clef. This is the most common clef used today, and the only G-clef still in use. For this reason, the terms G-clef and treble clef are often seen as synonymous. It was formerly also known as the violin clef. The treble clef was historically used to mark a treble, or pre-pubescent, voice part. - Wikipedia

Alchemical Symbol for Tutty

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:00 -0700

An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where copper or brass was smelted, and zinc sublimed. - Wikipedia