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Xerox Character Code Standard, the Glossary

The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture.^[1]

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A

A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.

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A (Cyrillic)

А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Acute accent

The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Aleph

Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا, and North Arabian 𐪑.

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Alpha

Alpha (uppercase, lowercase) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Ampersand

The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram, representing the conjunction "and".

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Apostrophe

The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.

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Arabic diacritics

The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as (تَشْكِيل).

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Arabic script

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.

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Armenian alphabet

The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages.

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Arrow (symbol)

An arrow is a graphical symbol, such as ← or →, or a pictogram, used to point or indicate direction.

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Asterisk

The asterisk, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος,, "little star", is a typographical symbol.

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At sign

The at sign,, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget.

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Ayin

Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

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À

À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent.

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Á

Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Chinese (Pinyin), Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Karakalpak, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a.

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Â

Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, Vietnamese and Mizo alphabets.

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Ä

Ä (lowercase ä) is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis.

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Å

The letter Å(å in lower case) represents various (although often very similar) sounds in several languages.

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Æ

Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae.

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Ç

Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets.

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É

É or é (e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.

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Ì

Ì is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the Cyrillic letter І.

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Í

Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel).

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Î

Î, î (i-circumflex) is a letter in the Friulian, Kurdish, Tupi, Persian Rumi, and Romanian alphabets and phonetic Filipino.

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Ò

Ò, ò (o-grave) is a letter of the Latin script.

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Ó

Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Czech, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Karakalpak, and Sorbian languages.

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Ö

Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis.

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Ø

Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages.

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Ú

Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems.

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Ü

Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark.

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ß

In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett or scharfes S ("sharp S"), represents the phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs.

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Ł

L stroke Category:Belarusian language L stroke Category:Navajo language Category:Polish letters with diacritics Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Belarusian Latin, Ukrainian Latin, Wymysorys, Navajo, Dëne Sųłıné, Inupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, Sm'álgyax, Nisga'a, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai script.

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Œ

Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words.

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B

B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Backslash

The backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics.

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Backtick

The backtick is a typographical mark used mainly in computing.

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Be (Cyrillic)

Be (Б б or Ƃ, δ; italics: Б б or Ƃ, δ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Bet (letter)

Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁, Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic bāʾ ب.

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Beta

Beta (uppercase, lowercase, or cursive; bē̂ta or víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Bob Belleville

Robert L. Belleville is an American computer engineer who was an early head of engineering at Apple from 1982 until 1985.

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Bopomofo

Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages.

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Breve

A breve (less often, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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C

C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Caron

A caron is a diacritic mark commonly placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.

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Cedilla

A cedilla (from Spanish, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.

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Cent (currency)

The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.

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Character encoding

Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.

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Che (Cyrillic)

Che, Cha or Chu (Ч ч; italics: Ч ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Chi (letter)

Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; χῖ) is the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Circumflex

The circumflex because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Colon (punctuation)

The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically.

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Comma

The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.

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Copyright symbol

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings.

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Cube (algebra)

In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number is its third power, that is, the result of multiplying three instances of together.

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Currency symbol

A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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D

D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Dalet

Dalet (also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Syriac dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order).

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De (Cyrillic)

De (Д д; italic: Д д) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Decimal separator

A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45).

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Degree symbol

The degree symbol or degree sign,, is a glyph or symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems), hours (in the medical field), degrees of temperature or alcohol proof.

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Delta (letter)

Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; δέλτα, délta) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Division sign

The division sign is a mathematical symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate the operation of division.

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Dollar sign

The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital crossed with one or two vertical strokes (or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".

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Dot (diacritic)

When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot refers to the glyphs "combining dot above", because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Dotless J

ȷ is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, obtained by writing the lowercase letter j without a dot.

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Double acute accent

The double acute accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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E

E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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E (Cyrillic)

Э э (Э э; italics: Э э; also known as backwards ye, from Russian е оборо́тное, ye oborótnoye) is a letter found in three Slavic languages: Russian, Belarusian, and West Polesian.

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Ef (Cyrillic)

Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative, like the pronunciation of in "fill, flee, or fall".

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El (Cyrillic)

El (Л л or Ʌʌ; italics: Л л or Ʌʌ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Em (Cyrillic)

Em (М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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En (Cyrillic)

En (Н н; italics: Н н) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Eng (letter)

Eng or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English sii) in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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Epsilon

Epsilon (uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel or.

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Equals sign

The equals sign (British English) or equal sign (American English), also known as the equality sign, is the mathematical symbol, which is used to indicate equality in some well-defined sense.

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Er (Cyrillic)

Er (Р р; italics: Р р) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Es (Cyrillic)

Es (С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Eta

Eta (uppercase, lowercase; ἦτα ē̂ta or ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel,.

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Eth

Eth (uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.

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Exclamation mark

The exclamation mark (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis.

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F

F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Fraction

A fraction (from fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.

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Full stop

The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).

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G

G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.

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Gamma

Gamma (uppercase, lowercase; gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Ge (Cyrillic)

Ge, ghe, or he (Г г; italics: Г г) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Georgian scripts

The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.

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Ghayn

The Arabic letter (غَيْنْ, or) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being). It represents the sound or.

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Gimel

Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician gīml 𐤂, Hebrew gīmel ג, Aramaic gāmal 𐡂, Syriac gāmal ܓ, and Arabic ǧīm ج.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Gothic alphabet

The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language.

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Grave accent

The grave accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.

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Greater-than sign

The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.

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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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Greek diacritics

Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period.

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Guillemet

Guillemets (also) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, and, used as quotation marks in a number of languages.

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H

H, or h, is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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H with stroke

Ħ (minuscule: ħ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a bar.

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Hamza

The hamza (هَمْزَة) is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language.

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Hard sign

The letter Ъ ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script is known as er goläm (ер голям – "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, as the hard sign (tvördý znak,, tverdyj znak) in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets (although in Rusyn, ъ could also be known as ір), as the debelo jer (дебело їер, "fat er") in pre-reform Serbian orthography, and as ayirish belgisi in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet.

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He (letter)

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه.

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Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.

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Heth

Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ ح.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

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Hyphen-minus

The hyphen-minus symbol is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents.

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I

I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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I (Cyrillic)

The Cyrillic I (И и; italics: И и or И и; italics: И и) is a letter used in almost all modern Cyrillic alphabets with the exception of Belarusian.

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IJ (digraph)

IJ (lowercase ij;; also encountered as Unicode compatibility characters Ĳ and ĳ) is a digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself.

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Interpunct

An interpunct, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin.

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Interscript

Interscript was a rich text document markup language designed by Xerox to act as a common interchange format between disparate document formats.

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Inverted question and exclamation marks

The inverted question mark,, and inverted exclamation mark,, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages.

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Iota

Iota (uppercase Ι, lowercase ι) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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J

J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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K

K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Ka (Cyrillic)

Ka (К к or K k; italics: К к or K k or К к or K k; italics: К к or K k) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Kaph

Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician kāp 𐤊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ, Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Syriac kāp̄ ܟ, and Arabic kāf ك (in abjadi order).

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Kappa

Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive; κάππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.

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Kashida

Kashida or Kasheeda (کَشِیدَه;;Transliteration based on Classical and Early New Persian (but also applies to the modern varieties of Dari and Tajik). In Modern Iranian Persian, however, this would be transliterated as or. lit. "extended", "stretched", "lengthened"), also known as Tatweel or Tatwīl (تَطْوِيل, taṭwīl), is a type of justification in the Arabic language and in some descendant cursive scripts.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Kha (Cyrillic)

Kha, Khe, Xe or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Kra (letter)

Kra (Kʼ / ĸ) is a glyph formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language (also known as Greenlandic) of Greenland and is now only found in Inuttitut, a distinct Inuktitut dialect.

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L

L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Lambda

Lambda (.

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Lamedh

Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ ל, Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām ل, and Phoenician lāmd 𐤋.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Lee Collins (Unicode)

Lee Collins is a software engineer and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium.

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Less-than sign

The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.

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Ligature (writing)

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.

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Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set

The Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS) is a proprietary multi-byte character encoding originally conceived in 1988 at Lotus Development Corporation with input from Bob Balaban and others. Xerox Character Code Standard and Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set are character encoding and character sets.

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M

M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Macron below

Macron below is a combining diacritical mark that is used in various orthographies.

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Mem

Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm מ, Aramaic mem 𐡌, Syriac mīm ܡ, Arabic mīm م, and Phoenician mēm 𐤌.

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Modifier letter apostrophe

The modifier letter apostrophe is a letter found in Unicode encoding, used primarily for various glottal sounds.

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Mu (letter)

Mu (uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek μῦ, μι or μυ—both) is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial nasal.

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Multiplication sign

The multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is a mathematical symbol used to denote the operation of multiplication, which results in a product.

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N

N, or n, is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.

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Negation

In logic, negation, also called the logical not or logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition P to another proposition "not P", standing for "P is not true", written \neg P, \mathord P or \overline.

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Nu (letter)

Nu (uppercase Ν, lowercase ν; vι ni) is the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar nasal.

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Number sign

The symbol is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign.

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Nun (letter)

Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician nūn 𐤍, Hebrew nūn נ, Aramaic nūn 𐡍‎, Syriac nūn ܢ, and Arabic nūn ن (in abjadi order).

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O

O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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O (Cyrillic)

O (О о; italics: О о) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.

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Ogonek

The ogonek (Polish:, "little tail", diminutive of ogon) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in several European languages, and directly under a vowel in several Native American languages.

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Omega

Omega (-->uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.

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Omicron

Omicron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, όμικρον) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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One half

One half is the irreducible fraction resulting from dividing one (1) by two (2), or the fraction resulting from dividing any number by its double.

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Ordinal indicator

st described below is intentional and is different from the style 1st --> In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number.

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Overline

An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text.

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P

P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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PARC (company)

SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Xerox Character Code Standard and PARC (company) are Xerox.

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Pe (Cyrillic)

Pe (П п; italics: П п) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Pe (Semitic letter)

Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician pē 𐤐, Hebrew pē פ, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Syriac pē ܦ, and Arabic fāʾ ف (in abjadi order).

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Percent sign

The percent sign (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100.

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Phi

Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; ϕεῖ pheî; Modern Greek: φι fi) is the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Pi (letter)

Pi (/ˈpaɪ/; Ancient Greek /piː/ or /peî/, uppercase Π, lowercase π, cursive ϖ; πι) is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, meaning units united, and representing the voiceless bilabial plosive.

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Pilcrow

In the field of publishing, the pilcrow (¶) is a handwritten and a typographical glyph (visual character) used to identify a paragraph.

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Plus and minus signs

The plus sign and the minus sign are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively.

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Plus–minus sign

The plus–minus sign or plus-or-minus sign,, is a symbol with multiple meanings.

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Pound sign

The pound sign is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.

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Psi (Greek)

Psi (uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ or 𝛙; psi) is the twenty-third and penultimate letter of the Greek alphabet and is associated with a numeric value of 700.

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Q

Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Qoph

Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق.

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Question mark

The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

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Quotation mark

Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.

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R

R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Registered trademark symbol

The registered trademark symbol,, is a typographic symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office.

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Resh

Resh (IPA: /ɹɛʃ/) is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš ר, Aramaic rēš 𐡓‎, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ ر.

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Rho

Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or; ρο or label) is the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Ring (diacritic)

A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters.

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Rune

A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples.

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S

S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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Samekh

Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ.

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Section sign

The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code.

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Semicolon

The semicolon (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation.

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Sha (Cyrillic)

Sha, She or Shu, alternatively transliterated Ša (Ш ш; italics: Ш ш) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts.

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Shcha

Shcha (Щ щ; italics: Щ щ), Shta, Scha, Šče or Sha with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Shin (letter)

Shin (also spelled Šin or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician šīn 𐤔, Hebrew šīn ש, Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Syriac šīn ܫ, and Arabic sīn س.

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Short I (Cyrillic)

Short I or Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called I kratkoe, и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. The short I represents the palatal approximant, like the pronunciation of in hallelujah.

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Sigma

Sigma (uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Slash (punctuation)

The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark.

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Soft sign

# The soft sign (Ь ь; italics: Ь ь) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages.

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Square (algebra)

In mathematics, a square is the result of multiplying a number by itself.

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T

T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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T with stroke

Ŧ (lowercase: ŧ, Latin alphabet), known as T with stroke or T with bar, is the 25th letter in the Northern Sámi alphabet, where it represents the voiceless dental fricative.

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Tau

Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ or \boldsymbol\tau; ταυ) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive.

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Taw

Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician tāw 𐤕, Hebrew tav ת, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Syriac taw ܬ, and Arabic tāʾ ت (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order).

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Te (Cyrillic)

Te (Т т; italics: Т т) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Teth

Teth, also written as or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṭēt 𐤈, Hebrew ṭēt ט, Aramaic ṭēṯ 𐡈, Syriac ṭēṯ ܛ, and Arabic ṭāʾ ط.

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Theta

Theta (uppercase Θ or; lowercase θ or; θῆτα thē̂ta; Modern: θήτα| thī́ta) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth.

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Thorn (letter)

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English.

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Tilde

The tilde or, is a grapheme with a number of uses.

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Triple bar

The triple bar or tribar, ≡, is a symbol with multiple, context-dependent meanings indicating equivalence of two different things.

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Tsade

Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi,, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, Hebrew ṣādī צ, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, and Arabic ṣād ص.

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Tse (Cyrillic)

Tse (Ц ц; italics: Ц ц or Ц ц; italics: Ц ц), also known as Ce, is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Two dots (diacritic)

Diacritical marks of two dots, placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in several languages for several different purposes.

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U

U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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U (Cyrillic)

U (У у; italics: У у) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

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Underscore

An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Xerox Character Code Standard and Unicode are character encoding.

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Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Character_Code_Standard

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