Synonyms and antonyms of Specific writing systems in British Thesaurus

Arabic (noun)

the system of writing that is used for the Arabic language

braille (noun)

a reading system for blind people that uses small raised marks that they feel with their fingers

cuneiform (adjective)

relating to a writing system used in ancient times in the Middle East. The letters are long and thin and wide at one end and narrow at the other.

cuneiform (noun)

cuneiform writing

Cyrillic (adjective)

the Cyrillic alphabet is used to write Russian and some Central European languages

Devanagari (noun)

the alphabet used for writing some Indian languages such as Hindi and Sanskrit

gamma (noun)

the third letter of the Greek alphabet

hieroglyphics (noun)

writing that uses pictures and symbols to represent sounds and words, especially Ancient Egyptian writing

IPA (noun)

International Phonetic Alphabet: a system of symbols used for representing speech sounds

kanji (noun)

a way of writing the Japanese language that uses ideograms (=signs that represent what words mean rather than how they sound)

katakana (noun)

a way of writing the Japanese language that uses signs to represent syllables (=units of words rather than single sounds). It is used mainly for writing foreign words.

omega (noun)

the last letter of the Greek alphabet

Pinyin (noun)

Chinese words written using the Roman alphabet

romaji (noun)

a system of writing the Japanese language using the Roman alphabet

the Roman alphabet (noun)

the alphabet developed by the ancient Romans that is used for writing English and many other European languages

rune (noun)

a letter from an ancient northern European alphabet, cut in stone and thought to have magic powers