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I can think of a few English pictograms on the standard keyboard:

^ = Hat

* = Star

# = Hash

~ = Squiggle

{ = Curly




Spanish (Costa Rica) has some amusing ones:

    ^ = techito (little roof)
    * = asterisco
    # = gato (litteraly means cat, but refers to the game of gato(tick tack toe))
    ~ = rabo de chancho (pig's tail)
    : = dos puntos (two dots)
    ; = punto y coma (dot and comma)
    ' = comilla (little comma)


I personally use ~=tilde, and *=asterisk.


I don't see what 'hash' is a picture of. There is 'cross-hatching' in illustration, but that's not the same word (and it's specifically cross-hatching, not just hatching, where the lines generally align). Otherwise 'hash' is either a meat dish or a recreational drug, neither of which look much like #.


Indeed. If anything, it should be called "waffle".


^ and ~ are accents in latin languages.




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