Systems
A single symbol carries meaning; a system carries a grammar. These are the structured sets — with their own rules of combination, order and size — inside which individual symbols become legible.
How to read a source: documented a dated record, a named author, a standards texttraditional long held within a tradition; no primary recordfolk widely repeated, unsupported — printed here to be corrected
Hanzi Logographic · ~100,000 characters Bagua Binary · 8 trigrams Zodiac Cyclical · 12 signs Alchemy Correspondence · metals & planets Mathematical notation Formal · open-ended Emoji Pictographic · ~3,800 and growing Heraldry Formal description language · unbounded Mon 家紋 Pictographic · ~250 core motifs Adinkra Proverbial · ~120 symbols Laundry care Instructional · five base shapes Weather warnings Instructional · ordinal and chromatic, in parallel