| PHONOGRAM | Character representing a sound |
| EMOTICON | Series of typed characters representing a stylised face (8) |
| OBSCENICON | Term for the string of characters representing a swear coined by linguist Ben Zimmer |
| ALTEREGO | In literary analysis, a character representing the author or their views (5,3) |
| AMPERSAND | Character representing "and" (9) |
| EPSILON | Character representing energy to the Greeks |
| ANKHS | Egyptian hieroglyphic characters representing the word "life" (5) |
| COUNTER | A tally, teller, timer or totaliser; a tiddlywink or points-tracker; a token representing a coin; a kitchen top; a turnstile or till's table over which takeaways, teas or tickets are traded and legal |
| SCHEMA | In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crossword |
| RING | In dendrochronology, a part of the cross-section of a tree trunk representing a single year's growth; or, an identity tag placed around a bird's leg (4) |
| SYMBOL | An emblem or ideogram, such as a musical note, pictorial icon on a map key/legend or a letter representing a chemical element (6) |
| MONOGRAM | Translating as "word letter", a term for a single character, sign or symbol representing a word or phrase (8) |
| AMORINO | Italian word, from "little love", for a putto representing a cupid in art, often with a bow/arrow or even a dove (7) |
| SCRIP | A certificate representing a claim to part of a share of stock |
| ICON | Any one of a series of pictograms displayed on a computer's desktop representing a program, application, function or file (4) |
| AGMA | Phonetic symbol (A...A) representing a velar nasal consonant, as in the ng of thing (4) |
| TABLEAU | With "vivant", a living picture comprising a motionless group in costume representing a painting, historical scene or sculpture (7) |
| PANORAMA | An extensive unbroken view of a landscape; or, a picture representing a continuous scene (8) |
| LEO | Astrological sign representing a lion; a constellation containing Regulus the "little king"; or, a name for the aforesaid cat, used in children's fables and tales (3) |
| NEUME | Word for a "breath" of music originally, later a symbol representing a melodic gesture (5) |
