English > graphic symbol: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A written symbol that is used to represent speech. |
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| Synonyms | character, graph, grapheme |
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| Narrower | ASCII character | Any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers |
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| allograph | A variant form of a grapheme, as 'm' or 'M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme |
| asterisk, star | A star-shaped character * used in printing |
| capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule | One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis |
| 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 |
| dagger, obelisk | A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote |
| double dagger, double obelisk, diesis | A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote |
| ideogram, ideograph | A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it |
| letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character | The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech |
| ligature | Character consisting of two or more letters combined into one |
| mathematical symbol | A character that is used to indicates a mathematical ... / mathematical relation or operation |
| percent sign, percentage sign | A sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100 |
| phonetic symbol | A written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound |
| pictograph | A graphic character used in picture writing |
| radical | A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram |
| rune, runic letter | Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages |
| small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
| space, blank | A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing |
| stenograph | A shorthand character |
| subscript, inferior | A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character |
| superscript, superior | A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character |
| type | Printed characters |
| Broader | written symbol, printed symbol | A written or printed symbol |
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| Spanish | carácter, grafema, grafía, símbolo gráfico |
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| Catalan | caràcter, grafema, grafia |
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