Sign, Script & Symbol Index

The Unicode and Unikemet entry identifies E34 as the desert hare and records the phonemic value wn.

G17 is the familiar owl sign. In transcription it is commonly encountered with the consonantal value m; a complete reading still depends on its group and grammatical setting.

M17 is a reed leaf sign. It is frequently transliterated ꞽ or i according to the convention and period being used.

N35 depicts a ripple of water and is commonly read with the consonantal value n.

S34 is the sign commonly called the ankh. Its recognized association with life does not make every later use, imitation or decorative appearance equivalent to an ancient Egyptian inscription.

Egyptian text is arranged in groups, not merely typed as a straight row. Unicode supplies format controls for vertical and horizontal joining, insertion and enclosure.

Unicode groups the suits as spades or swords, hearts or cups, diamonds or pentacles, and clubs or wands. That correspondence permits the 56-card Minor Arcana to be represented, but the glyphs remain schematic.

The Unicode playing-card block includes both jack or page and knight positions. This supports a four-rank court while retaining familiar regional terms such as valet, chevalier and dame in the standard's annotations.

Unicode encodes a Fool and a numbered series of twenty-one trumps. The standardized characters do not reproduce the imagery, titles or sequence of every historical or modern tarot tradition.

The encoded card back records that the face is concealed or unavailable. It does not identify which card lies beneath it.

Oracle decks do not share one fixed card count, suit structure or title sequence. The deck and its guidebook form the primary descriptive unit.

Unicode names the sequence Heaven, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain and Earth. A trigram's place within a hexagram, school and edition determine how a source interprets it.

Unicode encodes sixty-four named hexagram symbols. The characters preserve line structures and standardized names; commentary, judgment and changing-line practice belong to particular texts and traditions.

Unicode supplies distinct characters for the four element signs. Their appearance in a manuscript can be technical, philosophical, medical, diagrammatic or decorative.

The same marks occur across astronomical, astrological, alchemical and calendrical sources. The surrounding table, heading, date and material discipline establish their function.

Unicode names twelve zodiac signs from Aries through Pisces. A sign may mark a constellation, tropical or sidereal division, date, house cusp, illustration or later annotation.

Unicode identifies this as a runic letter with several historical names and the value f. Later symbolic associations should be documented from the particular inscription, poem, deck or publication being consulted.

A seal or mark is evidence of manufacture, custody or authorization only after its matrix, owner, date and relationship to the object have been established.

Translation should remain traceable to the source. A diplomatic transcription preserves visible spelling and omissions; normalized text expands or regularizes them; translation changes language.

A square, replacement character or unfamiliar glyph can mean that a font lacks the encoded character. It does not prove that the source itself was blank, damaged or unknown.