Blissymbols

A sample of Blissymbols, the writing system devised by Charles K. Bliss in the 1940's.

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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.