Rebus
A rebus is a picture, letter, number, or symbol that is used to represent a different word that has a similar pronunciation. In English, if a person was writing the sentence "I see you tonight" in a text message, the person might write "⊙ L C U 2nite", in which the symbol "⊙", which is a picture of an eye, represents the word "I" because it sounds the same, "L" stands for the contracted "will" as in "I'll", the letter "C" represents the word "see", the letter "U" represents the word "you", the number "2" represents the word "to", and the word "nite" is represents the word "night".
Rebus Media
A rebus-style "escort card" from around 1865, to be read as "May I see you home my dear?"
A German rebus, circa 1620
- Earcov
Ramesses II as child: Hieroglyphs: Ra-mes-su
A rebus sent to Voltaire by Frederick the Great – Supper tomorrow at Sanssouci?
Bishop Oldham's owl-dom rebus as carved in the wall of his chantry in Exeter Cathedral
A bottle of Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). sake (name spelt out at top right), with a rebus ∧ト💧 which is read as Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). (symbolized by the ∧) + Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). + Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). (symbolized by the 💧)
