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For example, before the invention of the printing press, possession of a large collection of laboriously hand-copied books was a symbol of wealth and scholarship. In later centuries, books (and literacy) became more common, so a private library became less-rarefied as a status symbol, though a sizable collection still commands respect.
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.
Sounds like the Chinese word for "fortune". See Numbers in Chinese culture#Eight. Used to mean the sacred and infinite in Japanese. A prime example is using the number 8 to refer to Countless/Infinite Gods (八百万の神, Yaoyorozu no Kami) (lit. Eight Million Gods). See 8#As a lucky number. Aitvaras: Lithuania [5] Acorns: Norse [6] Albatross
The status symbols of the 1% have typically revolved around appearance. But with the democratization of beauty, skincare, cosmetic enhancements, and fashion, new emblems of success are a bit more ...
Symbols of the Occult. WW Norton. ISBN 978-0-500-02403-4. Koch, Rudolf (1955). The Book of Signs: which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians. New York. ISBN 0-486-20162-7. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher
Young people in China are also struggling in an intensely competitive job market, with some of them choosing to “lie flat” and withdrawing from society or seeing content creation on social ...
Many (but not all) graphemes that are part of a writing system that encodes a full spoken language are included in the Unicode standard, which also includes graphical symbols. See: Language code; List of Unicode characters; List of writing systems; Punctuation; List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
That poor people imitate, try to match, and emulate the consumption patterns of rich people in order to increase their social status, and perhaps rise in society. That such socio-economic behaviours, facilitated by easy access to credit, generate macroeconomic volatility and support Veblen's concept of pecuniary emulation used to finance a ...