how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to...

Look up ligature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ligature may refer to: Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol...

In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana...

(lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status...

informal or decorative writing. The ligature is now mostly used in the context of the Latin alphabet, interpreted as a ligature of Latin o and u: for example...

were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for...

Stigma (ϛ) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and tau (Τ), which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. It is...

Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde & Ampersand plus sign Ligature (writing) ⟨ ⟩ Angle brackets Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than...

control of kerning. Hz-program Letter spacing Ligature (writing) Typeface anatomy Typographic ligature Word spacing "Fonts : Type topics: Glossary". Adobe...

Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally...

the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &;...

a letter Glyph – Purposeful written mark History of the alphabet Ligature (writing) – Glyph combining two or more letterforms Orthography – Set of conventions...

used together to represent a single sound, such as "sh" in English Ligature (writing), the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as "æ" Digraph...

i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself. In most fonts that have a separate character for...

 130. Rogers, Henry (2005). Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach. Blackwell Publishing. p. 135. "A list of Arabic ligature forms in Unicode". Depending...

the 1892 Dargwa alphabet and the 1875 Tabasaran alphabet. Latin Æ Ligature (writing) "Ossetian – ISO 9 transliteration system". Transliteration. Retrieved...

in late medieval and early modern German orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩...

forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. In the ALA-LC romanization for Russian, a tie symbol...

known as the 'Modi' script, used to write the Marathi language. Ligature is writing the letters of words with lines connecting the letters so that one...

in Natsilingmiutut as ŋ ᖖ is a ᓐᓐᒡ ligature in most areas but either a ᓐᓐᒃ ligature or a doubled ᓐᒃ (ᓐᒃᓐᒃ) ligature in Nunavik (which may resemble ᓐ8 or...

used for religious texts. Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet have ligatures, a combination of two letters make one, such as æ in Danish and Icelandic...

needed] used in formal writing for certain words of Greek or Latin origin, such as encyclopædia and cœlom, although such ligatures were not used in either...

consonant letters, where two or more letters are graphically joined in a ligature, or otherwise change their shapes. Rarely, one of the consonants may be...

"offspring" characters whenever their inherent vowel sound has been altered by a ligature or a diacritical mark. The siuálâ or vowels in Kulitan are usually written...

unlike other Brahmi scripts, the Tamil script rarely uses typographic ligatures to represent conjunct consonants, which are far less frequent in Tamil...

letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters...

used in many languages to represent the word and, originally a stylized ligature of the Latin word et. Other typographical examples include ⟨§⟩ 'section'...

five to ten wedges, while complex ligatures can consist of twenty or more (although it is not always clear if a ligature should be considered a single sign...

notes on usage. Only found in Old Coptic texts. Alternatively, ϯ may be a ligature of ⲧ and ⲓ. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799. It is inscribed with...

palæography, with the ligature æ. Several consonant-consonant ligatures are used commonly even in the new orthography. The ligature mpa മ്പ was historically...