See homoglyph in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "homo",
"3": "glyph",
"gloss1": "same"
},
"expansion": "homo- (“same”) + glyph",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "homoglyphs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "homoglyph (plural homoglyphs)",
"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": "English terms prefixed with homo-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"raw_tags": [
"forms for the same grapheme"
],
"tags": [
"variant"
],
"word": "allographs"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "homoglyphic"
},
{
"word": "homoglyphically"
},
{
"word": "homoglyphy"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43:",
"text": "The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, NIAS Report, page 34:",
"text": "The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:",
"text": "All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50:",
"text": "The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself."
],
"id": "en-homoglyph-en-noun-Qucqr~ot",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"character",
"character#English"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance#English"
],
[
"meaning",
"meaning#English"
],
[
"character encoding",
"character encoding"
],
[
"glyph",
"glyph"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, computing) A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "homograph"
},
{
"word": "homonym"
},
{
"word": "OCR"
},
{
"word": "optical character recognition"
},
{
"word": "scanno"
}
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homoglyphe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"word": "Homoglyph"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "homogeullipeu",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"word": "호모글리프"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "omóglif",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "омо́глиф"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "hŏʹmōglĭf",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-homoglyph.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d9/En-au-homoglyph.ogg/En-au-homoglyph.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/En-au-homoglyph.ogg"
}
],
"word": "homoglyph"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"raw_tags": [
"forms for the same grapheme"
],
"tags": [
"variant"
],
"word": "allographs"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "homoglyphic"
},
{
"word": "homoglyphically"
},
{
"word": "homoglyphy"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "homo",
"3": "glyph",
"gloss1": "same"
},
"expansion": "homo- (“same”) + glyph",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "homoglyphs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "homoglyph (plural homoglyphs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "homograph"
},
{
"word": "homonym"
},
{
"word": "OCR"
},
{
"word": "optical character recognition"
},
{
"word": "scanno"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with homo-",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Korean terms with redundant script codes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"en:Computing",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43:",
"text": "The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, NIAS Report, page 34:",
"text": "The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:",
"text": "All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50:",
"text": "The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"character",
"character#English"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance#English"
],
[
"meaning",
"meaning#English"
],
[
"character encoding",
"character encoding"
],
[
"glyph",
"glyph"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, computing) A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "hŏʹmōglĭf",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-homoglyph.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d9/En-au-homoglyph.ogg/En-au-homoglyph.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/En-au-homoglyph.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homoglyphe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"word": "Homoglyph"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "homogeullipeu",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"word": "호모글리프"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "omóglif",
"sense": "a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "омо́глиф"
}
],
"word": "homoglyph"
}
Download raw JSONL data for homoglyph meaning in English (4.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.