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BLISSCII
Blissym Code for Information Interchange
BLISSCII Code Chart
BLISSCII Character Names List

Grid
Blissymbols are composed on a grid.
sky line
middle sky line
middle line
middle earth line
earth line

Ultra Zone
Sky Zone
Middle Zone
Earth Zone
Infra Zone

The sky line and earth line bound the space in which blissymbols are formed. The earth line is the text base line. The sky line is
placed around the same height as upper case letters. The distance between the earth line and sky line is one unit. The space is
divided in half by a middle line, and into quarters by the middle sky line and the middle earth line.
The lines form the boundaries of three half unit high zones, the sky zone, middle zone, and earth line. There is also an ultra zone
which is used to hold the grammatical indicators. The ultra zone and infra zone also are the homes of two SEMI elements.
Each of the elements (or line letters) is identied with a line or a zone. Blissymbols are created by combining elements on the grid
as described below.
The space is further divided horizontally at quarter unit intervals.

The Characters
There are three classes of characters:
Non-breaking spacing characters, or base characters
Non-spacing elements, or line letters
Grammatical indicators
A blissymbol is made up of many elements and base characters, much as words are made up of letters. Unlike conventional
characters, the elements are non-spacing. This is to allow the combining of elements to form complex blissymbols. Spacing is
provided by the base characters. This scheme allows for huge exibility in permitting the design and use of new blissymbols with a
very small character set.
All of the other characters provided by ASCII, Unicode, or any other character set may also be used.

Non-breaking spacing characters

The base characters provide horizontal increments of one quarter unit to ve quarter unit.

The Non-spacing elements

There are 11 types of elements.

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Quantity

Type

Unique

Position

WATER

line

ARC

zone

quarter arcs of a one unit circle

14

SEMI

zone

semicircles of a half unit circle

DIAG

zone

diagonal line connecting two corners of a half unit square

BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM

SMALL QUESTION MARK

STEERING WHEEL
WHEEL
HEART
FIRE

one unit wide wavy line

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STEEP

zone

diagonal line connecting two corners of a rectangle that is a half unit tall and a quarter
unit wide

VERT

zone

vertical lines, half unit tall

LINE

line

horizontal lines, half unit wide

20

POINTER

line

pointer or arrow head

CORNER

DOT

line

dots

corner pointers

Grammatical indicators
The six characters in this class are spacing like conventional characters. They are used as prexes to identify the parts-of-speech of
symbols. Bliss originally called for these indications to be centered above symbols, like accent marks. This is dicult to do with
nave software, so the prex form is now used.

Construction
Examples will now be given showing the construction of blissymbols. One or more elements are placed, followed by a base
character. These can then be followed by additional elements and base characters. The nal base element must include an addition
quarter unit of space which is used for an eighth unit bumper on both sides of the symbol..

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BLISSYM
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BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM

VERB ACTIVE
SEMI TOP SKY
SEMI BOTTOM SKY
ONE QUARTER BASE
DOT MIDDLE SKY
TWO QUARTER BASE

Building
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM

NOUN
DIAG UP SKY
VERT EARTH
LINE EARTH
TWO QUARTER BASE
DIAG DOWN SKY
LINE EARTH
TWO QUARTER BASE
VERT EARTH
ONE QUARTER BASE

Rice
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BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM
BLISSYM

NOUN
WATER EARTH
ONE QUARTER BASE
ARC TOP LEFT
TWO QUARTER BASE
ARC TOP LEFT
THREE QUARTER BASE

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Normalization
There are many alternate constructions possible of most blissymbols. All are equally readable by humans, but may present
problems to computer systems that may want to do some processing on or with the blissymbols. There is a simple algorithm for
normalizing blissymbols. The preferred construction is always normalized.
Combine adjacent base characters. A BLISSYM ONE QUARTER BASE and a BLISSYM TWO QUARTER BASE can be replaced
by a BLISSYM THREE QUARTER BASE. There is never need for a base wider than BLISSYM FIVE QUARTER BASE.
A packet packet of elements can be bounded by base characters or normally spacing characters, or by the beginning or ending
of the text. A packet is sorted by its character codes. Superous elements can be deleted.
Base characters are inserted or modied to exactly contain the elements, plus one quarter unit.

Character codes
Currently, the BLISSCII characters are assigned the codes U+EBA1 thru U+EBFD in Unicode's Private Use Area. If use of BLISSCII
becomes widespread enough, a new set of codes will be assigned, possibly U+2BA1 thru U+2BFD.
There is also an 8-bit form of BLISSCII which uses the codes A1 thru FD. This allows it to coexist with the ASCII code. The 8-bit
form of BLISSCII is intended to accommodate older byte-oriented systems.

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Course information
1.5 credits
* Spring 2014 weeks 13-13 100%
Application Deadline: 2013-10-15
Enrolment Code: UU-97405 Application
Language of Instruction: The course might be taught in English
Location for Studies: Uppsala
Selection: Serial: 1. Speech Therapists, 2. Others
Entry Requirements: General entry requirements
Fees

About the course:

Blissymbolics is a graphical language, inspired by Chinese characters, developed and first
described by Charles Bliss in Semantography (1946). Since the 1970s Blissymbolics is used as
means of communication for people with no functional speech. Each element, character, in a
Bliss-word represents a concept, and the participants in the course will learn to interpret
sequences of different characters i.e., different Bliss-words so that they can derive their meaning
and read Bliss texts. As a graphic alternative communication aid (AAC) Blissymbolics differs
from picture-based AAC by the logic structure of the Bliss-words and the generalizability of the
Bliss-characters. As AAC, Blissymbolics is a graphical language to grow with. The characters
are both pictorial and ideographic with concrete and abstract meanings. Blissymbolics becomes
a link into the written language. In the Nordic countries Blissymbolics is widely used as AAC in
school children. The international awareness of Blissymbolics is large, but there are few courses
available. Thorough knowledge of the structure of Blissymbolics and the characteristic features
are important for the value of use of Blissymbolics as an AAC. The objectives of this course are
to provide a basic familiarity with Blissymbolics and inspire the use of Blissymbolics as AAC.
Participants in this course may be speech therapists, teachers or other professionals with an
interest in and use of Blissymbolics in their professional activities, or students, family members,
assistants and friends of people who use Blissymbolics and others all with interest in languages.
General entry requirements for higher education is a requirement.
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