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In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes ''-st'', ''-nd'', ''-rd'', ''-th'' in written ordinals (represented either on the line ''1st'', ''2nd'', ''3rd'', ''4th'' or as superscript, ). Also commonly encountered are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator, , and feminine ordinal indicator, , originally from Romance and then via the cultural influence of Italian, as in 1º ''primo'' and 1ª '' prima''. In correct typography, the ordinal indicators and should be distinguishable from other characters. The practice of underlined (or doubly underlined) superscripted abbreviations was common in 19th-century writing (not limited to ordinal indicators in particular, and also extant in the numero sign ), and was also found in handwritten English until at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle Symbol (other)
Circle symbol may refer to (in ascending order of size, approximately): * , ring diacritic * , white bullet * , function composition * , degree symbol * , masculine ordinal indicator *, music symbol denoting either a diminished triad or diminished seventh chord * , superscript lowercase letter o * , white circle Unicode symbol * , dotted circle * , lowercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek (omicron), and Cyrillic alphabets * , Semitic/Phoenician letter Ayin, the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic etc. letters * , uppercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets * , heavy circle Unicode symbol * , O mark, large circle Unicode symbol * , medium white circle Unicode symbol See also *Circle (other) * Degree symbol#Lookalikes *O (other) * O#Related characters * 0 (the number zero) *Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
