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"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics."
"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
SYMBOLS.com is the online version of Carl G Liungman's book Thought Signs (IOS Press, ISBN 90 5199 197 5). The subtitle of the book is "The semiotics of Symbols---Western Non-pictorial Ideograms", which fairly describes its contents."
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