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
A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds...
- radical
A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram.
Also contains
- letter
The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught...
- type
Printed characters; "small type is hard to read".
- ASCII character
Any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers.
- rune
Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to...
- capital
One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper...
- percent sign
A sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as...
- star
A star-shaped character * used in printing.
- dagger
A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
- double dagger
A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
- phonetic symbol
A written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech...
- allograph
A variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme.
- check character
A character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to...
- space
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space...
- superscript
A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of...
- subscript
A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side...
- mathematical symbol
A character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation.
- pictograph
A graphic character used in picture writing.
- stenograph
A shorthand character.
- ligature
Character consisting of two or more letters combined into one.
- minuscule
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.