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A symbol doing a word's job, no vowels required, no excuses given.
means A single carved, drawn, or coded symbol that stands for a sound, word, or idea.
from From Greek 'glyphe,' meaning carving, rooted in the verb 'glyphein,' to carve or engrave — the same root that gives us 'hieroglyph' (sacred carving). The word literally smells of the chisel, long before it ever sat on a screen.
- origin
- Greek glyphe, meaning carving
- usage
- hieroglyphs, emoji, and fonts all count
- typography
- each letterform is technically a glyph
- not synonym
- character is the idea, glyph is its drawing