surgery or medical procedure, a ligature consists of a piece of thread (suture) tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel, another hollow...

from a cord wound around the neck Ligature strangulation — Strangulation without suspension using some form of cord-like object (ligature) called a garrote...

originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &; the name being a corruption of 'and per se = and'; i.e. '& by...

characters IJ and ij) is a digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself. In...

entity: ‌ or ‌) is a non-printing character used in the computerization of writing systems that make use of ligatures. For example, in writing systems...

spelled with a ligature in English encompasses words which have letters that may, in modern usage, either be rendered as two distinct letters or as a single...

Devanagari ligature. A special case is ﷲ (U+FDF2), which is a special ligature of Arabic script used only for writing of the word Allah. This ligature is in...

grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ⟨ß⟩, (eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s'). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending...

book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. Historically, the figure is a ligature for the letters Et. In English and many other languages, it is used to...

13th century. In reformed Armenian orthography (1920s), the ligature և ev is also treated as a letter, bringing the total number of letters to 39. The Armenian...

form ligatures: when one letter ends in a long vertical stroke (i.e. ⟨⟩ d, ⟨⟩ e, ⟨⟩ h, ⟨⟩ i, ⟨⟩ m, ⟨⟩ n, ⟨⟩ o) and the next begins with a such a stroke...

alphabet: German uses letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ẞ/ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)),...

rests.) Ligatures are groups of notes written together, usually indicating melismatic singing of the same syllable over several notes. Ligature forms exist...

French alphabet uses a number of diacritics, including the circumflex, diaeresis, acute, and grave accents, as well as ligatures. A system of braille has...

study. Within Old Bengali grammar, the verb evolved and a letter is omitted from a ligature formed by consonants. Old Bengali was spoken in the Bengal...

these bars in turn nearly became dots. The origin of the letter ö was a similar ligature for the digraph OE: e was written above o and degenerated into two...

language. The adjective for a phone which undergoes iotation is iotated. The adjective for a letter formed as a ligature of the Early Cyrillic I (І) and...

The script uses many ligatures (see, e.g., Tironian notes), and some letters are hard to recognize – "a" looks like an uncial "a", but with the left stroke...

"[he] hunted"). The form of the Arabic letter ṣād may be formed from a ligature of dotless nūn and the bottom part of the letter ṭa. The letter is named...

minuscule. It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ⟨W⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨V⟩s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from...

Peterborough Chronicle manuscript, though in this period W was still a ligature and not a full-fledged letter. The manuscripts MS Harley 208, Stowe MS 57,...

is capitalized ⟨dT⟩. Digraphs may develop into ligatures, but this is a distinct concept: a ligature involves the graphical fusion of two characters...

should be used in its place. Latin-script multigraph Ligature (writing) Latin script in Unicode Ligatures in Unicode Phonetic symbols in Unicode List of Latin...

letter combinations are written as ligatures (special shapes), notably lām-alif لا, which is the only mandatory ligature (the unligated combination ل‌ا is...

or in Arabic "ا ل ل ه". The word consists of alif + ligature of doubled lām with a shadda and a dagger alif above lām. There are two possible ways of...

that may be considered a variant of the ogonek. It occurs on the letters a᷎ e᷎ i᷎ o᷎ ø᷎ u᷎. Ogonek ◌̨    Ą ą Ą́ ą́ Ą̃ ą̃ Ą̈ ą̈ Ą̊ ą̊ Æ̨ æ̨ C̨ c̨ Ę ę Ę́ ę́...

for a doubled ⟨n⟩. Its alphabetical independence is similar to the Germanic ⟨w⟩, which came from a doubled ⟨v⟩. Historically, ⟨ñ⟩ arose as a ligature of...

script (i.e. Pazend), another consonant 𐬮 was added to represent the /l/ phoneme that didn't exist in the Avestan language. Four ligatures are commonly...

sides of the consonants. It can also form a ligature. These rules are evolving and older use has more ligatures than modern use. What you actually see on...

Icelandic, and are collated as such, even though they originated as a ligature and a diacritical version respectively. Icelandic words never start with...