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  2. Emoji - Wikipedia

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    The first emoji set was created by Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in 1997, [5] with emoji becoming increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [6] [7] [8] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world.

  3. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  4. Astrological symbols - Wikipedia

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    True Black Moon ⯞ U+2BDE: The lunar apogee calculated from its current position (disregarding solar perturbation), as opposed to its mean position. symbols related to Lilith: White Moon, or Selena ⯝ U+2BDD: Russian astrologer Pavel Globa invented this to serve as the symbolic opposite of the Black Moon in the 1980s. True White Moon, or Arta ...

  5. Planet symbols - Wikipedia

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    Planet symbols. A planet symbol or planetary symbol is a graphical symbol used in astrology and astronomy to represent a classical planet (including the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The symbols were also used in alchemy to represent the metals associated with the planets, and in calendars for their associated days.

  6. Astronomical symbols - Wikipedia

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    The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.

  7. Lunar phase - Wikipedia

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    A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon 's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth). In common usage, the four major phases are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter; the four minor ...

  8. The Password Game - Wikipedia

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    In this screenshot, the inclusion of the moon emoji satisfies Rule 13; however, it splits the word "may", breaking Rule 6. The Password Game is a web-based puzzle video game. The player is tasked with typing a password in an input box. The game has a total of 35 rules that the password must follow and which appear in a specific order.

  9. Moon type - Wikipedia

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    The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script (but simplified). It is claimed by its supporters to be easier to understand than braille, though it is mainly used by people ...