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  2. Homoglyph - Wikipedia

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    Allographs are typeface design variants that look different but mean the same thing – for example g and g , or a dollar sign with one or two strokes. The term synoglyph has a similar but a little more abstract meaning – for example the symbol £ and the letter L (in Lsd ) both mean the pound sterling , [ 2 ] but only in that context.

  3. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;

  4. Letterlike Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets , although Unicode does not explicitly categorize these characters as being "letterlike."

  5. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics.

  6. Gender symbol - Wikipedia

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    Gender symbols on a public toilet in Switzerland. A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics.

  7. Caret - Wikipedia

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    The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret , ‸ , a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document.

  8. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs (letters, numbers, symbols or other shapes) that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most ambigrams are visual palindromes that rely on some kind of symmetry , and they can often be interpreted as visual puns . [ 4 ]

  9. List of symbols - Wikipedia

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    Hazard symbols; List of mathematical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) Glossary of mathematical symbols; List of physical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) List of common physics notations (typically letters used as variable names in equations) Rod of Asclepius / Caduceus as a symbol of medicine