Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of Romance languages or Guarani it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and ...
Shapes of horseshoe as designed for the African reference alphabet, clearly based on a serifed shape of the Latin capital U. The letter Ʊ ( minuscule : ʊ ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket , inverted omega or Latin upsilon , is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel .
U+FFFE <noncharacter-FFFE> and U+FFFF <noncharacter-FFFF> are noncharacters, meaning they are reserved but do not cause ill-formed Unicode text. Versions of the Unicode standard from 3.1.0 to 6.3.0 claimed that these characters should never be interchanged, leading some applications to use them to guess text encoding by interpreting the ...
Script capital F 2131 Ⅎ Turned capital F 2132 ℳ: Script capital M 2133 ℴ: Script small O 2134 ℵ: Alef symbol 2135 ℶ: Bet symbol 2136 ℷ: Gimel symbol 2137 ℸ: Dalet symbol 2138 ℹ: Information source 2139 ℺ Rotated capital Q 213A ℻ Fax sign 213B ℼ: Double-struck small pi: 213C ℽ: Double-struck small gamma: 213D ℾ: Double ...
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. Its name in English is u (pronounced / ˈ j uː / ), plural ues .