printed symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbol

allograph - a variant form of a grapheme as `m' or `M'

check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission

superscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

subscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers

ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one

capital letter, majuscule, upper case, upper-case letter, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"

lower case, lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read"

percent sign, percentage sign - %

asterisk, star - a star-shaped character * used in printing

dagger, obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

dieses, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"

blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"

phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound

mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation

rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"

pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing

ideogram, ideograph - a graphic character used in ideography

radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

stenograph - a shorthand character