homoglyph en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhəʉ.mə.ɡlɪf/ (Australia)
- audio Queensland
- /ˈhəʊ.mə.ɡlɪf/ (Received-Pronunciation, UK)
- /ˈhɐʉ.mə.ɡləf/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˈhoʊ.məˌɡlɪf/ (Canada, US)
Etymology
First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.
Meanings
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A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.
The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.
2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50:The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.
The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.
1990, NIAS Report, page 34:The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.
1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43:All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.
2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| homoglyphs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
homoglyphy · homoglyphically · homoglyphic
Hypernyms
Relateds
scanno · homograph · homonym · OCR · optical character recognition
Translations (4)
ko 호모글리프 (a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents) · fr homoglyphe (a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents) · de Homoglyph (a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents) · ru омо́глиф (a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents)