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Tet (letter)
Teth, also written as or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ṭēt , Hebrew TÄ“t , Aramaic Ṭēth , Syriac Ṭēṯ Ü›, and Arabic . It is the 16th letter of the modern Arabic alphabet. The Persian á¹a is pronounced as a hard "t" sound and is the 19th letter in the modern Persian alphabet. The Phoenician letter also gave rise to the Greek theta (), originally an aspirated voiceless dental stop but now used for the voiceless dental fricative. The Arabic letter (Ø·) is sometimes transliterated as ''tah'' in English, for example in Arabic script in Unicode. The sound value of Teth is , one of the Semitic emphatic consonants. Origins The Phoenician letter name may mean "spinning wheel" pictured as (compare Hebrew root ט-ו-×™ meaning 'spinning' (a thread) which begins with Teth). According to another hypothesis (Brian Colless), the letter possibly continues a Middle Bronze Age glyph named 'good', Aramaic טַב 'tav', Hebrew 'tov', S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Theta
Latin theta (uppercase: , lowercase: θ) is an additional letter of the Latin script, based on the letter theta from the Greek alphabet. It is used in Cypriot Arabic, Gros Ventre, Comox, Fox, Thompson, Tuscarora, Halkomelem, Wakhi, Yavapai, Havasupai–Hualapai, and Romani. It also historically was used in Lepsius Standard Alphabet. Usage The letter appears in the International Standard Alphabet of the Romani language, where it represents the voiceless alveolar plosive ( when placed after a vowel, and the voiced alveolar plosive ( when placed after a nasal consonant.Hancock, Ian. ''A Handbook of Vlax Romani'' In the Gros Ventre, Fox, and Comox languages, it represents the voiceless dental fricative ( ¸ sound. It was used in the Lepsius Standard Alphabet created for transcription of Egyptian hieroglyphs and African languages. In it, it represented the voiceless dental fricative The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Script In Unicode
Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters ''e'' and ''t'' (spelling ''et'', Latin for ''and'') were combined. The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by DecoType. As of Unicode 15.0, the Arabic script is contained in the following blocks: *Arabic (0600–06FF, 256 characters) *Arabic Supplement (0750–077F, 48 characters) *Arabic Extended-B (0870–089F, 41 characters) *Arabic Extended-A (08A0–08FF, 96 characters) *Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF, 631 characters) *Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF, 141 characters) *Rumi Numeral Symbols (10E60–10E7F, 31 characters) * Arabic Extended-C (10EC0-10EFF, 3 characters) *Indic Siyaq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monospaced
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths. Monospaced fonts are customary on typewriters and for typesetting computer code. Monospaced fonts were widely used in early computers and computer terminals, which often had extremely limited graphical capabilities. Hardware implementation was simplified by using a text mode where the screen layout was addressed as a regular grid of tiles, each of which could be set to display a character by indexing into the hardware's character map. Some systems allowed colored text to be displayed by varying the foreground and background color for each tile. Other effects included reverse video and blinking text. Nevertheless, these early systems were typically limited to a single console font. Even though computers c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
