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![]() ![]() Turned Sans-Serif Capital Y - Looks like this one is just for being an upside down Y. Greek Capital Letter Lamda - this one also shows up in the vaporwave aesthetic text generator A mathematical symbol used to mean a constant, usually one that has faulty logic, an absurdum.Ī mathematical symbol meaning intersection in set theory. ![]() Modifier Letter Extra-High Tone Bar - used in conjunction with the IPA to represent high pitched tone.Ĭouldn’t find anything out about this oneĪn Up Tack. Lisu Letter Kha - Part of the Fraser Lisu alphabet invented by preacher Sara Ba Thaw, to write Lisu, a Tibeto-Burman language in roman letters. Sometimes it was used for the first character in a double ‘ss’ in words like ‘eſsay’ Latin Small Long ‘s’ - apparently this was pretty popular until typesetters decided they didn’t need it. Turned Capital ‘F’ - introduced to the Roman Empire by Emperor Claudius, it denotes the sound a ‘W’ or ‘V’ means in English Latin Capital Open ‘O’ - used as part of an extension to the Latin alphabet in the Yacatec Mayan Alphabet and the African Reference AlphabetĬanadian Syllabics Carrier Tha - part of a set of characters for writing aboriginal Canadian languages like Inuktitut and Carrier It’s also been used in the IPA to mean a ‘open backed rounded vowel.’ĭeseret Capital Letter ‘B’ - a phonetic alphabet developed by the Mormon Church under the eye of Brigham Young. It basically means, ‘for every’ or ‘for all’. The logic symbol for Universal quantification. Its in-universe origin varies: in Generation 1 cartoon continuity it was applied by the Quintessons to their 'consumer good' creations, while in Marvel Comics continuity it is seemingly based on the Last Autobot. Some serif fonts it won’t work though, and all mono-space fonts have trouble In the real world, the Autobot insignia was derived from the head of Prowl 's toy. Just a lowercase l, in most fonts this works fine as a flipped version of itself. Latin Small ‘r’ with Fishhook - another from the IPA Small Latin Turned ‘i’ - used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet It seems to have only been used briefly in the Zhuang alphabet to represent a voiced bilabial implosive, before being replaced with ‘mb’ Latin dotless ‘j’ with a stroke - from the IPA Latin Small Letter Open ‘O’ - Another symbol from the IPAĪn extension of the Latin alphabet used in the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet and African Reference Alphabet Upside Down Character Tableįlipped Latin ‘a’ – used as a symbol in the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) Others have a more obscure origin, for more info, take a look at the table below. ![]() An alphabet used to note all the possible sounds a human can create with their voice. Many of the symbols used in this tool come from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). You can read a more in depth description of how unicode works here This includes the letters from 1000s of languages, mathematical symbols, and most famously, emojis ☝️. Unicode, which is basically an agreement on which letters computers can use, has over 100,000 possible characters. Where do all the flipped letters come from? ![]()
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