See z-variant on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "z (axis) + variant; from the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their general form (abstract shape, e.g. A from a), and the z-axis by their actual shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. a from a).", "forms": [ { "form": "z-variants", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "z-variant (plural z-variants)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Typography", "orig": "en:Typography", "parents": [ "Printing", "Writing", "Industries", "Human behaviour", "Language", "Business", "Human", "Communication", "Economics", "Society", "All topics", "Social sciences", "Fundamental", "Sciences" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons." ], "id": "en-z-variant-en-noun-wNgSzPSy", "links": [ [ "typography", "typography" ], [ "Unicode", "Unicode" ] ], "qualifier": "Unicode", "raw_glosses": [ "(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons." ], "topics": [ "media", "publishing", "typography" ], "wikipedia": [ "z-variant" ] } ], "word": "z-variant" }
{ "etymology_text": "z (axis) + variant; from the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their general form (abstract shape, e.g. A from a), and the z-axis by their actual shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. a from a).", "forms": [ { "form": "z-variants", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "z-variant (plural z-variants)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Typography" ], "glosses": [ "A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons." ], "links": [ [ "typography", "typography" ], [ "Unicode", "Unicode" ] ], "qualifier": "Unicode", "raw_glosses": [ "(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons." ], "topics": [ "media", "publishing", "typography" ], "wikipedia": [ "z-variant" ] } ], "word": "z-variant" }
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