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[1] It is possible that Peirce and Rees chose "tog" as a three-letter term, mirroring "clo", based on the informal word "togs" meaning "clothing", which according to the Oxford English Dictionary is a contraction of the 19th century thieves' cant word togeman, cognate with toga, meaning "cloak or loose coat". [3]
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
The word tögrög (төгрөг) refers to "circle", or a "circular object" (i.e., a coin). Today, it is rarely used outside of referring to the currency, with the exception of the phrase tögrög sar (төгрөг сар), meaning 'full moon'.
Another type of spelling characteristic is related to word origin. For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound / ɪ / in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon ), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
Print This Now. For other symbols, such as the arrow, star, and heart, there isn’t a direct keyboard shortcut symbol. However, you can use a handy shortcut to get to the emoji library you’re ...
The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics. Additionally, the subsequent columns contains an informal explanation, a short example, the Unicode location, the name for use in HTML documents, [1] and the LaTeX symbol.
The name is derived from medieval Latin word aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis, meaning 'circle equalizing day and night', from the Latin word aequare meaning 'make equal'. equilateral: æquilateral: aequilateral (BrE - obsolete) from Latin "aequus" equinox: æquinox: aequinox (BrE - obsolete) from Latin "aequi + nocta ...
(In Hebrew, the first word is anoki (אָנֹכִי ), which starts with an aleph.) In the Sefer Yetzirah, the letter aleph is king over breath, formed air in the universe, temperate in the year, and the chest in the soul. Aleph is also the first letter of the Hebrew word emet (אֱמֶת ), which means truth.