Symbol / Glyph Names

[OldMate]

Here are the names of all the symbols, which appear on p. 7 of the manual. Note that I took some small liberties to avoid redundancy, such as omitting diacritics. They appear in (kinda) alphabetical order.

Ѽ 800
*This character is a Cyrillic letter omega with a titlo diacritic—used to signify that a letter represents its numerical equivalent, which, for omega, is the number 800. Using this instead of "omega with titlo" avoids confusion with the more recognizable capital Greek omega, Ω.
æ Ae
*Pronounced "EYE"
© Copyright
Ӭ E
Ҩ Ha
Ҋ I
*Pronounced "YEE"
ϗ Kai
ϰ Kappa
Ԇ Komi Dzje
*I think this might be pronounced "KO-mee JUH/JEH". Can someone verify?
Ϙ Koppa
Ѯ Ksi
ƛ Lambda
Ω Omega
¶ Pilcrow
ψ Psi
¿ Query
Ϭ Shima
Ͼ Sigma
Ͽ Reversed Sigma
★ Dark Star
☆ White Star

Originally posted by Tundra Puppy:

ټ Teh

҂ Thousand
Ѣ Yat
Ѭ Big Yus
Ѧ Little Yus
Җ Zhe

I see a lot of groups using their own homebrew names, in the style of best-guess-if-we-were-playing-Pictionary. That works, too—and in many cases, such names are more identifiable than the proper ones (among my favorites are "hangman" for the pilcrow and "left/right ear" for sigma/reversed sigma). Hopefully this list will help out for the more challenging symbols—or for those of us with stunted imaginations :)

[Jovaniph]

How I see it.

æ ae
© Copyright
Ӭ 3 with 2 dots.
Ҩ Squiggly
Ҋ Large N
ϗ H with a messed up y
ϰ Lightning Bolte
Ԇ Half written R
Ϙ Lollipop
Ѯ Snake
ƛ Upside down Y
Ω Omega
¶ Paragraph
¿ Upside down ?
Ϭ Giant 6
Ͼ C with a dot in the middle
Ͽ Backwards C with a dot in the middle
҂ Less than equals symbol or #
Ѣ b with a t
Ѭ Kitty
Ѧ A with a t
Җ Double K

[Ｈｅｎｋｅ３７]

No, this is the paragraph sign: §. The one in the game really is called a pilcrow sign.

[BuddySloth]

Does it matter what they're actually called? I know for a fact that if I got together with my friends to play this and yelled "Pilcrow! There's a pilcrow button! And a komi dzje!" that we would absolutely lose.

[Dlaw]

I've seen ¶ used for "paragraph" as well, and that's what I call it. Doesn't really matter, so long as your expert/defuser can figure out what you're talking about.

[OldMate]

Originally posted by Ｈｅｎｋｅ３７:

No, this is the paragraph sign: §. The one in the game really is called a pilcrow sign.

Actually, not quite—though both symbols have very similar uses. § is called the section sign; it refers to a section of a document, and is often used in legal or technical material. ¶ is properly called a pilcrow (rather than "paragraph sign"), and is conventionally used to refer to a paragraph.

Originally posted by BloodySloth:

Does it matter what they're actually called? I know for a fact that if I got together with my friends to play this and yelled "Pilcrow! There's a pilcrow button! And a komi dzje!" that we would absolutely lose.

I agree :) The whole goal of this game is effective communication—to understand and make yourself understood, and to do so quickly. Whatever alternative names you choose to use instead of the proper ones, if they make you more readily understood, use them!

I put this list together because some symbols may be hard to describe. While it definitely wouldn't help to sling around the proper names if you're the only one who knows them, friends who play together regularly may agree to the convention of using the proper names for some symbols. "E, query, reversed sigma, kai" is a heck of a lot shorter than "three with two dots, upside-down question mark, backwards C with a dot in the middle, H with a messed up Y."

[aub]

Ӭ Screaming guy

[Holgast]

Thanks for putting up the proper names of these. I know the Cyrillic alphabet and it's kind of irritating to have nobody I play with know what I'm talking about. It's much faster to say 'zh' than 'two mirrored ks', for example.
I also thought that your 'E' was pronounced 'yo'?

I've also played with two people who weren't aware what a psi or lambda was, which is pretty bizarre, since I thought Greek letters were common knowledge. It really slows things down when we have to explain it.

In nay case, the lambda in game has a stroke through the head, which makes me think that it's actually a different letter, though we call it 'lambda' anyway. I feel like the 'smiley face' is a symbol in an Arabic language. Georgian maybe? I haven't seen that loop at the bottom anywhere.

[blaccdixk]

Ѽ Butt
æ AE
© Copyright
Ӭ Two dot Three
Ҩ Sideways Six
Ҋ Backwards N
ϗ H with tail
ϰ Lightning bolt
Ԇ Half R
Ϙ Circle Poop
Ѯ Three Snake
ƛ Lambda
Ω Omega
¶ Back P
¿ Question Mark
Ϭ 6
Ͼ Dot C
Ͽ Backward dot C
҂ Slashes
Ѣ B with T
Ѭ H ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ a Table
Ѧ A T
Җ X to the I

[Garlyle Wilds]

Originally posted by B → i ← nky:

Ӭ Screaming guy

That's amazing.

Some of the ones we've been using:

Ӭ 3 Umlaut
Ҩ C-O
Ҋ Fancy N
ϗ Fancy H
Ԇ Staff
Ϙ Badminton Racket
Ѯ Fancy 3
ƛ Flipped Y
¶ Paragraph
¿ Flipped question
Ϭ Fancy 6
Ͼ C with dot
Ͽ Backwards C with dot
҂ Diagonal lines
Ѣ The b
Ѭ The guy spearing an octopus (shortened to octopus)
Ѧ Pyramid
Җ XI

[Tundra - タンドラ]

Originally posted by bgabeler:

There's one character I can't figure out. It appears in the symbol library in the manual at 5, 2 and 4, 7. My only thought is that it looks like a smiley-face with its tongue poking out, like it's mocking me...

This is an arabic letter called "Teh with ring".

[Dlaw]

I like where this thread is going. Here's mine:

Ѽ Butt
Ӭ C Two Dots
Ҩ Sideways 6
Ҋ N
ϗ H with Hook
Ԇ Staff <- just adopted, thanks!
Ϙ Badminton Racket <- just adopted, thanks!
Ѯ 3 with tail
ƛ T with line (shortend to T)
¶ Paragraph
¿ Flipped question
Ϭ Fancy 6
Ͼ C with dot
Ͽ Backwards C with dot
҂ Stitch
Ѣ b with t
Ѭ Spaceship with dock (shortend to Spaceship)
Ѧ A
Җ Double K

[OldMate]

Originally posted by Tundra Puppy:

This is an arabic letter called "Teh with ring".

THANK YOU! This has been driving me nuts.

[Nifty4]

We have a lot of penises in our hieroglyphics modules.

Ӭ upside-down C with penis and two dots
Ҩ CO
Ҋ upside N
ϗ H with wave
Ԇ almost O with tail
Ϙ O with a penis
Ѯ 3 with tail
Ω Head with shoulders
¶ small reverse P
¿ Upside down ?
Ϭ 6
Ͼ C with a dot
Ͽ backwards C with a dot
҂ weapon from Dead Island
Ѣ tuberculosis
Ѭ dog
Ѧ A with a penis
Җ weird stuff with I in the middle

[theoriginal28]

æ a e
© Copyright
Ӭ Backwards e with 2 dots
Ҩ 6 that fell over
Ҋ Backwards n with a hat
ϗ Fancy h with a hook
ϰ Fancy h without a hook
Ԇ Capital r without a left side
Ϙ Magnifying glass
Ѯ Snake with horns
ƛ Lambda
Ω Omega
¶ Paragraph
¿ Upside down question mark
Ϭ Flat 6
Ͼ C with a dot
Ͽ Backwards c with a dot
҂ Train tracks
Ѣ TB
Ѭ H being eaten by a three legged triangle
Ѧ A with a ♥♥♥♥
Җ X with an I, or mirrored K

[Lord Texington Esquire]

does nobody else call Ҩ rollercoaster??