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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

communication go
something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups

sign, signal, signaling go
any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

symbol go
an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

written symbol, printed symbol go
a written or printed symbol

character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech

noun.communication

22 Subcategories

allograph go
a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme
check character go
a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission
superscript, superior go
a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
subscript, inferior go
a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
ASCII character go
any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
ligature go
character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule go
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
minuscule, small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter go
the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
type go
printed characters
percent sign, percentage sign go
a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100
star, asterisk go
a star-shaped character * used in printing
dagger, obelisk go
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
double dagger, double obelisk, diesis go
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character go
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
space, blank go
a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
phonetic symbol go
a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound
mathematical symbol go
a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation
rune, runic letter go
any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages
pictograph go
a graphic character used in picture writing
ideogram, ideograph go
a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
radical go
a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
stenograph go
a shorthand character