English word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Diacritical marks, Letters, Logograms, Matched pairs, Numeral symbols, Punctuation marks
Total 410 word senses
- A … Harvard comma (12 senses)
- I … accent grave (18 senses)
- acute … broad arrow (17 senses)
- c … cédille (19 senses)
- d … diæresis (13 senses)
- dot … exclamation point (16 senses)
- f … guillemet (17 senses)
- h … háček (12 senses)
- i … iteration mark (17 senses)
- k … multiplication sign (17 senses)
- n … oxia (17 senses)
- p … punctus versus (20 senses)
- q … rough breathing (9 senses)
- s … solidus (19 senses)
- stet … tilde (13 senses)
- titlo … čiriklo (24 senses)
- ⠄⠄⠄ (Punctuation) ellipsis (... or …)
- ⠐⠂ (Punctuation) The ditto mark
- ⠐⠜ (Punctuation) Closing parenthesis, )
- ⠐⠠⠤ (Punctuation) The dash, —
- ⠐⠣ (Punctuation) Opening parenthesis, (
- ⠔⠔ (Punctuation) A generic mark for footnotes and references. Equivalent to the symbols *, †, §, etc., and to superscripting numbers and letters.
- ⠘⠦ (Punctuation) The double quotation mark, “
- ⠘⠴ (Punctuation) The double quotation mark, ”
- ⠠⠦ (Punctuation) The opening single quotation mark, ‘
- ⠠⠴ (Punctuation) The opening single quotation mark, ‘
- ⠤⠤ (Punctuation) The en dash, –
- ⠤⠤⠤ (Punctuation) The em dash, —
- ⠨⠜ (Punctuation) The closing square bracket, ]
- ⠨⠣ (Punctuation) The opening square bracket, [
- ⠨⠤ (Punctuation) The underscore, _
- ⠴⠄ (Punctuation) The closing single quotation mark, ’
- ⠶⠄ (Punctuation) The closing bracket, ]
- ⠸⠌ (Punctuation) The virgule, /
- ⠸⠜ (Punctuation) The closing curly bracket, }
- ⠸⠡ (Punctuation) The back-slash, \
- ⠸⠣ (Punctuation) The opening curly bracket, {
- (Punctuation) Used to space out letters in words relating to vaporwave.
- ))) ((( (Symbol) Indicates somebody or something of pure non-Jewish background.
- // (Punctuation) Follows a content warning.
- 101 (Adjective) Basic, beginner, starting from scratch.
- ~ (Character) Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
- ‐ (Punctuation) Used as sentence-final punctuation.
- ◌̀ (Character) Used to indicate that the suffix -ed is pronounced with a schwa: lookèd (IPA /ˈlʊkəd/); past-tense learned vs adjective learnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
- ◌̀ (Character) Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use ◌́ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
- ◌̀ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated: à la carte, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, tête-à-tête, vis-à-vis.
- ◌̀ (Character) An affectation in some proper names: e.g. Ketèlbey.
- ◌́ (Character) Used on loan words to mark e's (mostly final) that are pronounced rather than silent, e.g. animé, café, exposé, maté, resumé, paté, saké; Malé, Pokémon. (Cf. expose, mate, resume, pate, sake, male.)
- ◌́ (Character) Used in glossaries, such as for Latinate technical terms or Classical names, to mark stressed syllables when full pronunciations are not given, as the pronunciation is largely predictable once stress-placement is known.
- ◌́ (Character) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
- ◌́ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated:; Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated
- ◌̂ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French): château, crème brûlée, crêpe, maître d', mêlée, papier-mâché, rôle, tête-à-tête.
- ◌̄ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
- ◌̆ (Character) The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
- ◌̆ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.
- ◌̈ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately: naïve (or naive), Noël (or Noel), but also for umlaut in German Götterdämmerung, Führer.
- ◌̧ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
- ◌͝◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'short' sound: ⟨o͝o⟩ /ʊ/.
- ◌͞◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
- ◌͞◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.
- ◌͟◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͟i and c͟h.
- ◌͡◌ (Character) Used to mark digraphs such as the consonants ⟨c͜h, n͡g, s͜h, t͜h, z͜h⟩ for IPA /t͡ʃ, ŋ, ʃ, θ, ʒ/, ⟨ᴋ͜ʜ⟩ for Scottish /x/, or the rhotic vowels ⟨a͡r, e͡r⟩ for IPA /ɑɹ, ɜɹ/.
- ◌᷍◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a᷍a, a᷍i, a᷍u, e᷍e, e᷍i, e᷍u, o᷍i.
- ◌᷵ (Character) Marks a vowel as a schwa.
- ◌᷵ (Character) A partially or optionally reduced vowel, e.g. fa᷵‧tal′i‧ty, de᷵‧pend′, pro᷵‧pose′, for′mu᷵‧late.
- ⸼ (Punctuation) A full stop (period).
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