What do these characters mean?

Question

I think they're Greek.. They didn't exactly look like that, but they were pretty similar. Can anyone please help me?
Thanks in advance!


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Well, I found them enscripted on a bracelet and I really need to know what they mean.

Answer 1

To me it looks like greek characters (hand-writing, not the ones you can see with the font used around here). The second letter is the hand-written version of γ (soft g, as in spanish or like y in yes without a short ee shound between y and e), while the first letter could be a calligraphic form of either ζ (z) or ξ (ks) (most probably ζ) which I would not like. Both can be initials to words.
I looked at an international phonetic characters chart. Yes, they could belong to that group as well. But why would someone use them on a bracelet? I also looked at modern Hebrew script examples -this makes sense. It explains better the first letter.

Answer 2

I agree to the first one being a phonetic letter.
For me it is not the Old English thorn.
It stands for sh or zh as in the Canadian ”Georges”
Could be read as the French ”je”
with a lot of imagination you see two kissing faces
or a styled heart in the lower sign:
”Je t’aime” (I love you)
But this is really just a wild speculation
I also can’t see anything Greek in the signs, either.

You are welcome

Answer 3

Those are also letters in the international phonetic alphabet.

In phonetics, the top symbol is known as yogh, and represents the 'j' sound in French 'je', or what we might otherwise write as 'zh'. The origin of the top letter is old English, known as 'yogh', and it represented the 'y' sound in 'you'.

The second represents the 'gh' sound of Arabic in phonetics and is known as gamma.The origin of the bottom letter is Greek (γ), though it has been modified a bit to look more Latin, Gamma traditionally representing the 'g' sound in Greek.

Hmm... I don't know their symbolic significance... maybe they are initials for someone whose name starts with the 'zh' or 'dj' sound and whose last name starts with a 'g' sound?

Answer 4

It might help if you were to give a context for the character, i.e. where they appear etc. Standard Dictionaries and most likely websites will have the Greek and other alphabets on them, that would be your best bet.

I don't recognize either as being Greek, potentially the bottom one, but rather tough to tell.

Answer 5

That is hebrew, i think modern script, well, but it can be too sort of ancient, theyre still similar.

The above letter is called Lamed, and the other is called Ayin, which means eye.