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A sample of Blissymbols, the writing system devised by Charles K. Bliss in the 1940's.
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. About the author.
about, | action, | addition, | adult, | after, |
against, | ago, | agreement, | air, | airplane, |
all, | allow, | along with, in addition to, | and, | animal, |
answer, | arm, | ask, | awake, | baby, |
back, | backward, | bad, | baggage, | be (inanimated), |
because, | bed, | before, | between, | bird, |
Blissymbols ("world writing"), | blood ("life fluid"), | boat, | body, | bone, |
book, | boy, | bus, | but, | by (means of), |
car, | cause, | chain, | chair, | child, |
children, | clock, | cloth, | clothing, | colour, |
come, | commerce, | compel, | conscience, | considerate, |
container, | country, | couple, | couple (hetero), | couple (homo), |
cup (glass), | cup (mug), | daughter, | day, | decision, |
destruction, | difficult, | dish, | disk, | division, |
doctor ("medicine person"), | door, | down, downward, | drink (n.), | drink (v.), |
ear, | eat, | effect, | electricity, | electromagnetism, |
emotion, | enclosure, | evaluation, | event, | exchange (v.), |
eye, | face, | fact, | far, | father, |
feel, | feelings, | female, | finger, | fire, |
fish, | flag, | flower, | food, | foot, |
for (the purpose of), | fork, | forward, | free ("feeling open"), | future, |
garden, | gas, | get (receive), | girl, | give, |
go, | god, | good, | grain, | grass, |
ground, | grove ("many trees"), | hair, | hair (of head), | hand, |
happy ("emotion up"), | have, | he, | he or she ("3rd person"), | head, |
health, | healthy, | hear, | heart, | help, |
her (adj.), | high, | his, | his or her, | holy, |
horse, | hospital ("medicine house"), | house (building), | how ("by what action"), | husband, |
I, | idea, | illness, | in, | inside, |
interval, | into, | it, | journey, | kiss, |
knife, sword, | know, | knowledge, | lake ("much water"), | language, |
large, | last (previous), | left, | legs, | length, |
less than, | life, | light, | lightning, | limits, |
line, | long, | love, | low, | machine, |
making, | man, | maybe, | meaning, | medicine, |
metaphor, | mind, | money, | month, | moon, |
more, | more than, | morning, | most, | mother, |
mountain, | mouth, | multiplication, | muscle, | note (music), |
my, | name, | nature (creation), | near, | need (n.), |
need (v.), | next (future), | night, | no!, | nose, |
now, | observation, | on, | open, | opinion, |
opposition, | other, | our, | out, | outside, |
paper (page), | parent, | part, | past, | pen, |
person, | place, | planet, | plant, | please! ("intense emotion"), |
pointing, | positive, | possession, | post, | practice ("repeated work"), |
present, | protection, | purpose, | question, | quick, |
rain, | raw material, | read ("see a page"), | repetition, copy, | right, |
ring, | room, | sad ("emotion down"), | same, | science, |
see, | self, | selfish, | she, | short, |
sitting, | sky, | son, | sound, | speak, say, |
spoke, said, | spoon, | stairs, | star, | steam, |
stone, | strength, | strong, | subtraction, | success, |
successful, | sun, | supernatural, | table, | taste, |
teenager, | that (conj.), | that (adj.), | their, | then (future), |
then (past), | therefore, | they, | thick, | thin, |
thing, | think, | this, | time, | to (dative), |
toe, | tomorrow ("next day"), | tool, | tooth, | towards, |
transport, | tree, | understand, | up, upward, | use, |
village ("many buildings"), | wake, | walk, | want ("feel fire"), | war, |
water, | we, | week, | what, | wheel, |
when ("what time"), | where, | which ("what part"), | who ("what person"), | why ("what cause"), |
wide, | wife, | window, | wings, | wish, |
with (the help of), | woman, | word ("part of language"), | work (n.), | |
work (v.), | world, | write, | year, | yes, |
yesterday ("previous day"), | you, thou, | your, thy. |