graphic symbol
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| Noun | 1. |  graphic symbol - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"printed symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbol allograph - a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission superscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character subscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one capital letter, majuscule, uppercase, upper-case letter, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read" percent sign, percentage sign - a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100 diesis, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing ideogram, ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms" radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram stenograph - a shorthand character |
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