MEANING
ENGLISH: Name
SPANISH: Nombre, nombrar
Families: Letters, Image abstractions
EXPLANATION
This is a visual cue combined with an abbreviation. It’s a bizarre N for name. The little circle could even represent the head of somebody, hence the name (of a person).
MEANING
ENGLISH: Tight, narrow, narrowing, constriction, pressure
SPANISH: Apretado, estrecho, estrechamiento, compresión, presión
Families: Punctuation marks
EXPLANATION
This is the abstraction of two lines squeezing against each other. There are two ways of drawing this symbol. One of them is usually in the adjective or noun form and the other is in the verb form.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Natural, tree, park, herbs, forest, plant, plant, grass, salad, vegetables
SPANISH: Natural, árbol, parque, hierbas, bosque, planta, césped, ensalada, vegetales
Families: Image abstractions, Foods
EXPLANATION
This is an abstraction of a tree. Trees are the basic icon of nature.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Nausea
SPANISH: Náuseas
Families: Medicine, Letters, Slashes
EXPLANATION
Abbreviation. The slash works as a visual cue.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Nausea and vomit
SPANISH: Nausea and vomit
Families: Letters, Slashes, Medicine
EXPLANATION
This is an abbreviation.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Neck, nape
SPANISH: Cuello, nuca
Families: Compound symbols, Body parts, Circles
EXPLANATION
The circle is the head. The line on top helps make this circle stand out as the head. Your head is on top of your body. This line also helps differentiate the symbol for ‘’head’’ from the symbol for ‘’we’’.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Need
SPANISH: Necesitar
Families: Letters
EXPLANATION
This is the ‘’N’’ from ‘’Need’’. Be careful with the N for ‘’No’’. Most of the time you will figure it out by context.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Nephew
SPANISH: Sobrino
Families: Family members
EXPLANATION
This is another way of representing females and males. I add the repetition of the letters because a family is ‘’a repetition of genes’’, reproduction (produce again, repeat).
I use the angle brackets because your nephew is like your second son, the child of your sibling. I use the cursive ‘’O’’ because it’s shorter than the two ‘’O’’ as in brother. In this case, this ‘’O’’ only indicates the gender of your nephew and differentiates it from the symbol for ‘’son’’.
MEANING
ENGLISH: New, novelty, renew
SPANISH: Nuevo, novedad, renovar
Families: Punctuation marks, Letters
EXPLANATION
Abstraction and visual cue with a deconstructed letter. Do you remember ‘’possible’’? It uses the same concept of breaking up a letter to make it stand out.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Niece
SPANISH: Sobrina
Families: Family members
EXPLANATION
This is another way of representing females and males. I add the repetition of the letters because a family is ‘’a repetition of genes’’, reproduction (produce again, repeat).
I use the angle brackets because your niece is like your second daughter, the child of your sibling. I use the ‘’double q’’’ because it specifies the gender (female) and also differentiates it from the symbol for ‘’daughter’’.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Night
SPANISH: Noche
Families: Image abstractions
EXPLANATION
Moon abstraction.
MEANING
ENGLISH: No
SPANISH: No
Families: Letters
EXPLANATION
Abbreviation. It’s mandatory to add the period after the N because without it, ‘’N’’ can mean ‘’need’’.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Normal, standard, average, common, usual, typical, general
SPANISH: Normal, estándar, promedio, común, usual, típico, general
Families: Math, X family
EXPLANATION
This is the math symbol for ‘’average’’. This is called ‘’x-bar’’.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Nose, nostril, smell, nasal
SPANISH: Nariz, orificio nasal, olor, oler, nasal
Families: Body parts, Image abstractions
EXPLANATION
This is the abstraction of a nose.
MEANING
ENGLISH: Number, digit, code, figure
SPANISH: Número, dígito, código, cifra
Families: Math
EXPLANATION
Standard number pad symbol. I dropped one of the horizontal lines to draw faster, but I always make sure the vertical lines are inclining.
