Character

Of written symbol.   May also be referred to as grapheme and graphic symbol.

A written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters".

This concept's ID is @1~36306

Ideogram

  • ideogram 2 facts

    A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds...

  • radical 0 facts

    A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram.

Also contains

  • letter 81 facts

    The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught...

  • type 2 facts

    Printed characters; "small type is hard to read".

  • ASCII character 1 facts

    Any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers.

  • rune 1 facts

    Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to...

  • capital 1 facts

    One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper...

  • percent sign 0 facts

    A sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as...

  • star 0 facts

    A star-shaped character * used in printing.

  • dagger 0 facts

    A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.

  • double dagger 0 facts

    A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.

  • phonetic symbol 0 facts

    A written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech...

  • allograph 0 facts

    A variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme.

  • check character 0 facts

    A character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to...

  • space 0 facts

    A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space...

  • superscript 0 facts

    A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of...

  • subscript 0 facts

    A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side...

  • mathematical symbol 0 facts

    A character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation.

  • pictograph 0 facts

    A graphic character used in picture writing.

  • stenograph 0 facts

    A shorthand character.

  • ligature 0 facts

    Character consisting of two or more letters combined into one.

  • minuscule 0 facts

    The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.