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another combinatorial unicode char set is the trigram. Note that, in these MONOGRAM, TRIGRAM, TETRAGRAM, HEXAGRAM, some allows the bar to break into 3 pieces, while other only 2.

unicode trigram hexagram 2019-09-10 zgxs2 — unicode trigram hexagram 2019-09-10

Unicode: Cultural Religious Symbols 💀

2019-09-11

ways to order combinatorial patterns

one interesting thing is how do you sort braille? here's 3 possible ways.

sorting braille 2019-09-10 zwtdy — sorting braille 2019-09-10

Unicode: Braille ⠮

2019-08-28

Unicode: Upside-Down Text ɐ q ɔ p ǝ ɟ ᵷ

2019-08-09

Chinese Prosperity Symbols

🉠 🉡 🉢 🉣 🉤 🉥

added to Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☲

2019-08-09

Christian Feast Symbols

there is these: 🕃 🕄 , meaning Orthodox typicon symbol for lower rank feast.

also 🕀 🕁 🕂. Apparently, there's Orthodox Church, and has ranking of feasts.

and there is 🕅, meaning Orthodox typicon symbol for difficult sections. Apparently used for bible reading or something.

added to Unicode: Cultural Religious Symbols 💀

2019-08-09

Om Symbol, in Hinduism and Buddhism

🕉 OM SYMBOL. Meaning Almighty God in Hinduism. See also: Unicode: Devanagari अ

and here's a 🕉 Om chant song 六字真言頌 six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra “Om mani padme hum”

here's om in tamil: ௐ Unicode: Tamil அ

2019-08-06

Unicode BISMILLAH

﷽

added to Unicode: Arabic ش

note the word bismillah is in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 🎵

2019-08-21

the story of Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ō Ŏ Ő Ɵ Ơ Ǒ Ȍ Ȏ Ȫ Ȭ Ȯ Ȱ Ǫ Ǭ Ø Ǿ Ṍ Ṏ Ṑ Ṓ Ọ Ỏ Ố Ồ Ổ Ỗ Ộ Ớ Ờ Ở Ỡ Ợ

Unicode: Latin é ö ñ æ ß ð

2019-05-19

math font unicode 2021-12-12 — Unicode: Math Font ℤ

2019-08-14

fake unicode font

lol, this thread.

but am thinking, perhaps it's the other way round. 𝔰𝔬𝔣𝔱𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱 𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱. and it's a matter of time.

things evolve. once the 𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔰 is out of the door, people use it however they like, just like 🤷. Even mathematicians, few would know the difference of ∆ Δ ∂ δ ∑ Σ µ μ.

2019-08-09

perl6 unicode operators

2019-07-13

in APL, A ⍟ B means Logarithm of B to base A. I think APL's symbolic operators rather idiotic.

APL Symbols Meaning and Code Example

2019-07-05

Egyptian Hieroglyph 𓂀

2019-07-08

Unicode: Emoji vs Text

2019-06-29

unicode missing emoji version of plain red heart

you have

♡ U+2661: WHITE HEART SUIT
♥ U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT

That's why only some website make them emoji, cuz if in poker context, rendering it as emoji would be wrong. So you have this abominational situation where you need to insert a modifier char to make it emoji.

🖤 U+1F5A4: BLACK HEART ❤ U+2764: HEAVY BLACK HEART ♡ U+2661: WHITE HEART SUIT ♥ U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT so, completely, comprehensively, confounding! the abomination of unicode.

See Unicode: Emoji vs Text

2019-06-22

unicode ⧴ rule delayed

⧴ (U+29F4: RULE-DELAYED)

this unicode symbol came from Mathematica

2019-06-21

me = sleep(🌙 😪 😴 💤 🛌);
you = goto_work(😪+😟+😵 ☕ 💪 💨 🚗 🏭 🗩 🗪 🗫 🗬 🗭 📈 📉 🗮 🗯 💢 🔥 🤬 💩);

2019-05-22

unicode code bug

🐛 (U+1F41B: BUG)

this unicode , named bug, but seems to be displayed as caterpillar all across. i don't think most people picture “bug” as a caterpillar or worm.

2019-03-07

latin to rune 2019-05-24 — Unicode: Rune ᚠ

2019-02-25

2019-02-23

unicode tibetan wc66q — Unicode: Tibetan ࿓

2019-02-13

Unicode Screenshots

2018-09-04

2018-07-02

Unicode symbol for X-men ⮿

2018-07-02

Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

major update. Added some 100 arrows i missed before.

on iphone and android phone, the arrows don't show. strange, because these are from unicode 7, year 2014.

2018-07-02

ribbon arrows

⮰ ⮱ ⮲ ⮳ ⮴ ⮵ ⮶ ⮷

added to Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

2018-07-02 thanks to ~~https://twitter.com/vladresende/status/1013890682933710848~~

2018-06-29

this utter stupid unicode page

http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/text-style.html

there r 1214 emoji there, and each picture is base64 encoded in the html. the file is 3 mega bytes. removing them, the file is 153k

2018-06-24

Unicode: Emoji Usage Frequency

2018-06-14

Unicode: Box Art ░ ▒ ▓

2018-06-13

Unicode: Emoji vs Text

2018-06-07

Unicode: Emoji Politics

2018-06-06

Symbola Font for Unicode No Longer Free

2018-06-06

unicode 11 is out

https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/

2018-04-15

unicode speech bubble c3251 — unicode speech bubble Unicode 7 New Characters (2014)

2018-03-30

Spaceship CUNEIFORM

Unicode: Cuneiform 𒁷

2018-03-08

unicode squared chars 2018 6P8Zt — unicode squared chars 2018

Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🆗

2018-02-21

༕ ༖ ឱ ឲ

2018-02-19

Chinese Chess Pieces in Unicode 11

🩠 🩡 🩢 🩣 🩤 🩥 🩦

🩧 🩨 🩩 🩪 🩫 🩬 🩭

Play Chinese Chess Online

2017-12-25

Father Christmas, not Santa Claus?

instead of Santa Claus, the unicode calls it Father Christmas.

🎄 🎅 🤶 ⿅ 𐂂 🦌

see Unicode Search

so why Unicode call Santa Claus as Father Christmas? Wikipedia has history

but be warned it probably contains biased writing.

this Wikipedia from 2005 gives a easier to follow picture of history of Father Christmas ❮https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Father_Christmas&oldid=33065629❯ ❰2017-12-25 ❮https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Father_Christmas&oldid=33065629❯❱

quote:

Father Christmas is a name used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and several other Commonwealth Countries, as well as Ireland, for the gift bringing figure of Christmas or yuletide. Although Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus (the latter deriving from the Dutch for Saint Nicholas: Sinterklaas), are now used interchangeably, the origins of Father Christmas are quite different.

Dating back to Norse mythology, Father Christmas has his roots in Paganism. Before Christianity came to British shores it was customary for an elder man from the community to dress in furs and visit each dwelling[citation needed]. At each house, in the guise of "Old Winter" he would be plied with food and drink before moving on to the next. It was thought he carried the spirit of the winter with him, and that the winter would be kind to anyone hospitable to Old Winter. The custom was still kept in Medieval England, and after a decline during the Commonwealth, became widespread again during the Restoration period. A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares' Observations upon the Times involved Father Christmas advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.

He was neither a gift bringer nor was he associated with children. During the Victorian era when Santa Claus arrived from America he was merged with “Old Winter”, “Old Christmas” or “Old Father Christmas” to create Father Christmas, the British Santa which survives today.

2016-12-24

Unicode Search thousand 🔎

2016-12-18

Unicode Search water 🔎

2013-07-19

モフモフ♫
╭◜◝  ͡  ◜◝╮   ╭◜◝  ͡  ◜◝╮
(     '-'     )   (     '-'     )
╰◟◞  ͜  ◟╭◜◝  ͡  ◜◝╮  ͜  ◟◞╯
　　　(     '-'     )
　　　╰◟◞  ͜  ◟◞╯

2013-07-03

Unicode Navigational Pointers

◄ ► ◅ ▻

☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟

👆 👇 👈 👉

🔙 🔚 🔛 🔜 🔝

These are new in Unicode 6 i think. If it doesn't display, get the font, see: Unicode 6 Emoticons and Supporting Fonts. For many other arrows, see: Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

2013-06-23

Unicode Character Bad Naming

2012-04-28

Unicode wave

U+223F: SINE WAVE ∿
U+301C: WAVE DASH 〜
U+3030: WAVY DASH 〰
U+2307: WAVY LINE ⌇
U+FE4B: WAVY OVERLINE ﹋
U+FE4C: DOUBLE WAVY OVERLINE ﹌

2012-04-28

learned a few Unicode symbols related to functional programing.

U+2394: SOFTWARE-FUNCTION SYMBOL⎔

thanks to [François-René Rideau ~~https://plus.google.com/108564127390615114635/posts~~]