#written_symbol__writtensymbol__printed_symbol__printedsymbol a written or printed symbol
supertype: #symbol an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
subtype: #mark.written_symbol a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"
subtype: #arrow.mark__pointer a mark to indicate a direction or relation
subtype: #broad_arrow.mark a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing
subtype: #call_mark__call_number__pressmark a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
subtype: #caret a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
subtype: #check_mark__checkmark__check a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.; "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"
subtype: #diacritical_mark__diacriticalmark__diacritic a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
subtype: #accent_mark__accent a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or (in some languages) placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
subtype: #stress_mark a mark indicating the stress on a syllable
subtype: #acute_accent__acuteaccent__acute__ague a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
subtype: #grave_accent__graveaccent__grave a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
subtype: #breve a diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
subtype: #cedilla a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
subtype: #circumflex a diacritical mark '^' placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
subtype: #hacek__wedge a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation
subtype: #macron a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
subtype: #tilde a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
subtype: #umlaut__dieresis__diaeresis__diaeresi a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
subtype: #ditto_mark__dittomark__ditto a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
subtype: #dollar_mark__dollar_sign a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
subtype: #point.mark__head a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"
subtype: #punctuation_mark__punctuationmark__punctuation the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
subtype: #ampersand a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)
subtype: #angle_bracket__anglebracket__bracket either of two punctuation marks (< or >) used to enclose textual material
subtype: #apostrophe the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
subtype: #brace.punctuation_mark either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
subtype: #square_bracket__bracket either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material
subtype: #colon.punctuation_mark a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
subtype: #comma a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
subtype: #exclamation_mark__exclamationmark__exclamation_point__exclamationpoint a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation
subtype: #hyphen__dash a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
subtype: #parenthesis__parenthesi either of two punctuation marks ( or ) used to enclose textual material
subtype: #full_stop__period__point__stop__full_point a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
subtype: #suspension_point (usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete
subtype: #question_mark__interrogation_point__interrogationpoint a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
subtype: #quotation_mark__quotationmark__quote__invertedcomma a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
subtype: #single_quote a single quotation mark
subtype: #double_quotes a pair of quotation marks
subtype: #scare_quote__scarequote the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
subtype: #semicolon a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period
subtype: #solidus__slash__virgule__diagonal__stroke__separatrix a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
subtype: #swung_dash__swungdash a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word
subtype: #grapheme__character__graphic_symbol__graphicsymbol a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
subtype: #allograph.grapheme a variant form of a grapheme as `m' or `M'
subtype: #superscript__superior a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
subtype: #subscript__inferior a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
subtype: #ASCII_character any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
subtype: #ASCII_control_character__control_character__controlcharacter ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time
subtype: #backspace_character__backspacecharacter a control character that indicates moving a space to the left
subtype: #monogram a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing
subtype: #upper_case__uppercase__capital__uppercaseletter one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in proper names and sometimes for emphasis; (printers once kept type for capitals and small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters)
subtype: #small_capital__smallcapital__small_cap__smallcap a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
subtype: #small_letter__smallletter__lower_case__lowercase__lower-case_letter the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
subtype: #type.grapheme printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
subtype: #type_family a complete set of type suitable for printing text
subtype: #font__fount__face a specific size and style of type within a type family
subtype: #typewriter_font__constant-width_font__fixed-width_font__fixedwidthfont__monospaced_font a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter)
subtype: #proportional_font any font whose different characters have different widths
subtype: #modern_font__modern__Bodoni__Bodoni_font a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
subtype: #old_style_font__oldstylefont__old_style__oldstyle a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
subtype: #roman_letters__romanletter__roman__roman_type__romantype__roman_print__romanprint a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
subtype: #font_cartridge__cartridge_font__cartridgefont (computer science) any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer
subtype: #black_letter__blackletter__gothic a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
subtype: #boldface__bold_face__bold a typeface with thick heavy lines
subtype: #italic.font a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
subtype: #screen_font__raster_font (computer science) the font that is displayed on a computer screen; "when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed"
subtype: #sans_serif__Helvetica a typeface in which characters have no serifs
subtype: #percent_sign__percentsign__percentage_sign %
subtype: #asterisk__star a star-shaped character * used in printing
subtype: #dagger__obelisk a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
subtype: #double_dagger__double_obelisk__dieses a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
subtype: #letter_of_the_alphabet__letter__alphabetic_character the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
subtype: #ascender.letter_of_the_alphabet a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters
subtype: #descender.letter_of_the_alphabet a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
subtype: #digraph two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
subtype: #initial the first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"
subtype: #A the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #B the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #c__C the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #D the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #E the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #F the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #G the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #H the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #i__I the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #J the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #K the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #L the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #M the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #n the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #O the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #P the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #Q the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #R the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #S__s__ the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #T the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #U the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #V the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #W the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #X the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #Y the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet
subtype: #z__Z__zee__zed the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed but Americans call it zee"
subtype: #alpha the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #beta the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #gamma the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #delta.letter_of_the_alphabet the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #epsilon the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #zeta the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #eta the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #theta the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #iota the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #kappa the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #lambda.letter_of_the_alphabet the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #mu the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #nu the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #xi the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #omicron the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #pi the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #rho the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #sigma the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #tau the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #upsilon the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #phi the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #chi the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #psi the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #omega the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
subtype: #aleph the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #beth the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #gimel the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #daleth the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #he the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #waw the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #zayin the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #heth the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #teth the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #yodh the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #kaph the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #lamedh the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #mem the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #nun.letter_of_the_alphabet the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #samekh the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #ayin the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #pe the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #sadhe the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #qoph the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #resh the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #sin the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #shin.letter_of_the_alphabet the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #taw the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
subtype: #polyphone__polyphonicletter a letter that has two or more pronunciations; "`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'"
subtype: #block_letter__blockletter__block_capital__blockcapital a plain hand-drawn letter
subtype: #vowel a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
subtype: #vowel_point__vowelpoint a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel
subtype: #consonant.letter_of_the_alphabet a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
subtype: #space.grapheme__blank a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
subtype: #phonetic_symbol a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound
subtype: #mathematical_symbol a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation
subtype: #rune__runic_letter__runicletter any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"
subtype: #thorn a Germanic character of runic origin
subtype: #pictograph a graphic character used in picture writing
subtype: #ideogram__ideograph a graphic character used in ideography
subtype: #logogram__logograph a single symbol that represents an entire word or phrase
subtype: #radical.grapheme a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
subtype: #phonogram any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word
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