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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A glyph with no agreed semantic or phonetic value, generally formed by deforming a letter of the Greek alphabet or a simple geometric symbol via one of several predefined processes, used as part of magical texts in the Hellenistic world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr). Doublet of character.
