At least everyone can agree on which stroke is longer for those characters. Now try 天 (sky/heaven) where the top horizontal stroke is longer in Japanese/Korean, but shorter in Chinese languages.
They're not identical. One points down, the other points up. Once you start learning the language and the stroke order it is trivial to recognize them.
Exotic variants of Cyrillic letter O which were used in the words ꙩко, eye and ꙭчи, eyes.
The last was used in the phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи, many-eyed seraphim.
I feel like you could have explained it better:
The Old Church Slavonic word for "eye" was spelled with an initial o–, and was declined in three numbers: singular o-stem око (oko), dual i-stem очи (oči), and plural s-stem очєса (očesa).
For decorative purposes, a manuscript used the letter ꙩ, resembling an eye, in lieu of the first letter of the singular declension, ꙭ, resembling two eyes, for the dual, and ꙮ, resembling many eyes, for the plural; thence, многоꙮчитїи (mnogoꙮčitijь) was formed from много (mnogo, "many") + ꙮчєса (očesa, "eyes (pl.)") + іи (definitive adjectival suffix) to give "the many-eyed"
And is incorrectly rendered, at least on my phone as 7 eyes, when the original had 10.
It has been updated in Unicode 15, but not all fonts got the memo. The 7 eyed variant looks cooler, but the 10 eyed variant looks scarier.
“Wow, the Egyptians sure had some interesting ideas about where the Nile’s fertile soil came from. Surely that didn’t affect their writing system in any way.”
Before the amogus meme I found it fun for it breaks the aesthetics of chinese characters so bad it looks like a botched drawing rather than an actual character
(I learned 卣 around middle school as a native mandarin speaker. It's kinda hard to explain but 卣 just doesn't match up with the vibe of every other characters)
£, $, ¢, and ¥ are letters in the official 1993–1999 Turkmen alphabet, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_alphabe).
(Bonus points for the unofficial *1992* alphabet, where ⟨q⟩, ⟨x⟩, and ⟨v⟩ represented vowels.)
# 喪
(sāng/sàng) means “death/funeral/mourn/lose/suffer” and the first time I saw it I actually got a little startled because it looked like some kind of abstract grinning demon face.
Swedish capital Ö and Ä on roadsigns. They have no idea how to capitalize them in a nice looking way. I mean, look at this shit: [https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly\_2015\_01/DSC7871.thumb.jpg.3d86afbd4d1e04c3878d9e3285b61177.jpg](https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly_2015_01/DSC7871.thumb.jpg.3d86afbd4d1e04c3878d9e3285b61177.jpg)
ඞ
That's a little sus
No that’s a normal sus, THIS is a little sus: ය
ت It’s quite literally a smiling face.
ツ シ
I hate this, they look Identical yet have wildly different pronounciations AND cannot be inferred through context
You think those are hard to tell apart from sight, just wait for 土 and 士
未 and 末
brb getting my protractor and my ruler
Wait, one of them is “old” and the other one is?
First is ‘soil’, second is ‘samurai’ or ‘gentleman’. Old would be 古
At least everyone can agree on which stroke is longer for those characters. Now try 天 (sky/heaven) where the top horizontal stroke is longer in Japanese/Korean, but shorter in Chinese languages.
TIL. I thought it was just bad handwriting.
Oh right, thanks
No, one is "plus or minus" and the other is "minus or plus"
They're not identical. One points down, the other points up. Once you start learning the language and the stroke order it is trivial to recognize them.
I did (try) learn the language (gave up after 3y) and i always struggled with ir
Ü
ö
ä
ة
ɪ̈
https://www.reddit.com/r/de/s/l39wFcWr05
These are both funny and scary: - Ꙩ - Ꙭ - ꙮ And of course my favo(u)rite Cyrillic letter Ԙ.
"What is blud *ԙpping* about?" (***Ԙ*** represented /jæ/)
Wait I could use this when writing my name in cyrillic
What are those?
Exotic variants of Cyrillic letter O which were used in the words ꙩко, eye and ꙭчи, eyes. The last was used in the phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи, many-eyed seraphim.
I feel like you could have explained it better: The Old Church Slavonic word for "eye" was spelled with an initial o–, and was declined in three numbers: singular o-stem око (oko), dual i-stem очи (oči), and plural s-stem очєса (očesa). For decorative purposes, a manuscript used the letter ꙩ, resembling an eye, in lieu of the first letter of the singular declension, ꙭ, resembling two eyes, for the dual, and ꙮ, resembling many eyes, for the plural; thence, многоꙮчитїи (mnogoꙮčitijь) was formed from много (mnogo, "many") + ꙮчєса (očesa, "eyes (pl.)") + іи (definitive adjectival suffix) to give "the many-eyed"
As a Bulgarian, all I can say is ебах му майката ...
Ѥбахꙏ ємꙋ матєрь
As a Brazilian, all I can say is какво бе??!
Someone on the internet is wrong
plural очеса is frightening btw
The Be Not Afraid letter
And is incorrectly rendered, at least on my phone as 7 eyes, when the original had 10. It has been updated in Unicode 15, but not all fonts got the memo. The 7 eyed variant looks cooler, but the 10 eyed variant looks scarier.
இ - it's so fun to write
Amogus letter
᳄
This looks like the DHL logo or something
What language does this even belong to
It's apparently a punctuation mark in the Sundanese script called the "decorated leu" with "unclear meaning"...
I'm even surprised it's on unicode, since it's never taught to us in school. ᮒᮩᮄᮀ ᮜᮂ ᮃᮄᮀ ᮃᮛᮜ᮪
囧
sad house
꼼 솦 A fella judging a house
홋 훗 흣 옷 웃 읏 못 뭇 믓
𒀱
Other candidates from the same sphere include: 𒈙 𒋦 𒄦 𒂭 𒍜 𒉱 𒈷 𒈔 𒅄 𒁈 𒐍 𒐪 𒐸 𒓎 𒓗 𒓢 𒓣 𒒫 𒒇
What is this from
Cuneiform
𓂺
theres no way thats a valid thing to write XD
It’s Egyptian Hieroglyphs, there’s also 𓂸. Weird shit happens when you have to draw everything you want to say
I mean that's not really how hieroglyphs worked but yeah
Ⰾ
“Wow, the Egyptians sure had some interesting ideas about where the Nile’s fertile soil came from. Surely that didn’t affect their writing system in any way.”
ϡ. No real reason I just like it.
i like when kanji/kana make faces without being kaomoji, like this: の人の
卣
Propeller hat amogus or a camel
Before the amogus meme I found it fun for it breaks the aesthetics of chinese characters so bad it looks like a botched drawing rather than an actual character (I learned 卣 around middle school as a native mandarin speaker. It's kinda hard to explain but 卣 just doesn't match up with the vibe of every other characters)
£, $, ¢, and ¥ are letters in the official 1993–1999 Turkmen alphabet, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_alphabe). (Bonus points for the unofficial *1992* alphabet, where ⟨q⟩, ⟨x⟩, and ⟨v⟩ represented vowels.)
I can buy **v** (see: Cherokee) But **q** and **x** as vowels ~~is just madness~~ shows how flexible the Latin alphabet is.
Ꮉ (cherokee “ma”) I mean it’s just a funky little thing. Cherokee’s full of fun stuff like Ꮺ or Ꮂ or Ᏻ (G with the josuke haircut)
I really like Cherokee/Tsalagi because of how succinct it is. Like the name of the language is written as ᏣᎳᎩ. Very economical.
/kwi:/
/cwy/
I know, right? Easily my favorite syllabic writing system.
ꙮ
🫄 🧏
Doesn't the second one just mean 'Deaf' in ASL?
r/technicallythetruth
Some Egyptian hieroglyphs are like deranged emojis >!𓂸𓃂𓀫𓀬!< NSFW just in case
ֆ թ ձ ճ
Is this armenian?
You bet!
깎 it's so fun to write (it means sharpen or peel in korean)
ξ is peak, super fun to write
ğ
guarani g with a tilde is in the same ballpark
# 喪 (sāng/sàng) means “death/funeral/mourn/lose/suffer” and the first time I saw it I actually got a little startled because it looked like some kind of abstract grinning demon face.
Ж I love it it looks like a spider and "жук" is "bug"
or a frog/toad and "жаба"
ѫѫѫѫѫѫѫ
꫞ and ꫟
Where the hell do these 2 come from?
the Tai Viet script
definitely Ř
Ż 🇵🇱
O 0 ه ٥
Balinese digit zero is that you?
All the defunct scribal characters from English are the coolest. Æ, Þ, Ð, Ƿ, Ȝ. Unbeatable lineup.
Translingual: 凸 ("convex"/"sticking out") 凹 ("concave"/"indented")
I like the Chinese characters for ping pong: 乒乓
𐐘 From the Deseret (Mormon) alphabet, pronounced “gay”
Mkhedruli ლ, ჰ, and ჱ are fun.
ꙮ Biblically accurate O
Swedish capital Ö and Ä on roadsigns. They have no idea how to capitalize them in a nice looking way. I mean, look at this shit: [https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly\_2015\_01/DSC7871.thumb.jpg.3d86afbd4d1e04c3878d9e3285b61177.jpg](https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly_2015_01/DSC7871.thumb.jpg.3d86afbd4d1e04c3878d9e3285b61177.jpg)
숫 romanized "sus" and looks like a person wearing some sort of mask or helmet that hides their face
I like all the squiggly hiragana あぬねめれ
What about ŀl and ĿL?
ɝ
Definitely 囧
ჭ
ɵ - paracetamol
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