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  2. Ʊ - Wikipedia

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    Shapes of horseshoe as designed for the African reference alphabet, clearly based on a serifed shape of the Latin capital U.. The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket, inverted omega or Latin upsilon, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel.

  3. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    Horseshoe-shaped, resembling a horseshoe, cf. horseshoe (disambiguation). In botany , also called lecotropal (see below) Hourglass shape or hourglass figure , the one that resembles an hourglass ; nearly symmetric shape wide at its ends and narrow in the middle; some flat shapes may be alternatively compared to the figure eight or hourglass

  4. Near-close near-back rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The near-close back protruded vowel is typically transcribed in IPA simply as ʊ , and that is the convention used in this article. As there is no dedicated diacritic for protrusion in the IPA, symbol for the near-close back rounded vowel with an old diacritic for labialization, ̫ , can be used as an ad hoc symbol ʊ̫ for the near-close back protruded vowel.

  5. Horseshoe (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    Horseshoe [1] (⊃, \supset in TeX) is a symbol used to represent: Material conditional in propositional logic; Superset in set theory; It was used by Whitehead and Russell in Principia Mathematica. In Unicode the symbol is encoded U+2283 ⊃ SUPERSET OF (⊃, ⊃, ⊃).

  6. Horseshoe - Wikipedia

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    A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a ... The shape, weight, and thickness of a horseshoe can significantly affect the horse's gait. ... which became symbols ...

  7. List of lucky symbols - Wikipedia

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    The swastika or crux gammata (in heraldry fylfot), historically used as a symbol in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, and widely popular in the early 20th century as a symbol of good luck or prosperity before adopted as a symbol of Nazism in the 1920s and 30s. Tortoiseshell cat: Many cultures Rooted in Folklore: White Elephant: Thai [35] White ...

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  9. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.