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  2. Homoglyph - Wikipedia

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    Letters m and r+n in typefaces Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, Cambria, Walbaum-Fraktur, and Comic Sans Stefan Szczotkowski looks like Aeffan Szczotkowski on the gravestone. Some other combinations of letters look similar, for instance rn looks similar to m, cl looks similar to d, and vv looks similar to w.

  3. Letterlike Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not explicitly categorize ...

  4. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up ...

  5. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Calligraphy. By script. The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered excepting several letters splitting—i.e. J from I , and U from V —additions such as W , and extensions such as letters with diacritics, it forms the ...

  6. Rune - Wikipedia

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    A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the ...

  7. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet. An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns ...

  8. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  9. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    Though not palindromic in the mathematical sense, they read frontward and backward like real ambigrams. A strobogrammatic number is a number whose numeral is rotationally symmetric, so that it appears the same when rotated 180 degrees. The numeral looks the same right-side up and upside down (e.g., 69, 96, 1001). [54] [55] [56]