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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.
The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics. Additionally, the subsequent columns contains an informal explanation, a short example, the Unicode location, the name for use in HTML documents, [1] and the LaTeX symbol.
The ⨪ symbol and its variant, the ÷, is sometimes considered to be different from other obeli. The term 'obelus' may have referred strictly only to the horizontal slash and the dagger symbols. The term 'obelus' may have referred strictly only to the horizontal slash and the dagger symbols.
Yin is the black side, and yang is the white side. Other color arrangements have included the white of yang being replaced by red. [29] The taijitu is sometimes accompanied by other shapes, [30] such as bagua. [29] [30] The relationship between yin and yang is often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain and a valley. Yin ...
Another instance comes from the alchemist Michael Maier who writes the word Tusalmat, but through a code (discovered by Pierre Borel and Isaac Newton), in which t and s, u and a, l and r, m and n are interchanged to reveal Saturnus. [12] This is merely a symbol as Tusalmat holds no inherent meaning or connection to Saturn (the alchemical lead).
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
In 2019, amid his first term as president, two polls, one by Politico/Morning Consult and the other by Quinnipiac, found 54 percent and 51 percent of Americans had concluded that Trump is a racist.
Iteration marks have been occasionally used for more than two thousand years in China.The example image shows an inscription in bronze script, a variety of formal writing dating to the Zhou dynasty, that ends with "子 𠄠 孫 𠄠 寶用", where the small 𠄠 ("two") is used as iteration marks in the phrase "子子孫孫寶用" ("descendants to use and to treasure").