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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)),...

here forms a ligature with a. Independent vowels are non-diacritical vowel characters that stand alone (i.e. without being attached to a consonant symbol)...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

1871 and 1911, the 1892 Dargwa alphabet and the 1875 Tabasaran alphabet. Ligature (writing) "Ossetian – ISO 9 transliteration system". Transliteration. Retrieved...

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

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...

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...

whether it was given by people as a reflection of his nature or was simply a given name from his parents, i.e., a masculine form of his mother's name...

such as abbreviations, which would later become various diacritics or ligatures. From the 10th century, the pitch-defining element (if it ever existed)...

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...

also a center of translation, mostly of Byzantine authors. The Cyrillic script is derived from the Greek uncial script letters, augmented by ligatures and...

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...

disputes. Ligatures are common. (Note: the Hungarian runic script employed a number of ligatures. In some cases, an entire word was written with a single...

Cyrillic, known as ustav, was based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for phonemes not found in...

Romance languages, but in others it represents the same sound as ⟨b⟩, i.e. /b/, due to a process known as betacism. Betacism occurs in most dialects of Spanish...