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Symbols read while finding the way: charts, compasses, waymarking and weather charts.
All 259symbols recorded in this context, A–Z.
A rotating light whose colours identify the field type.
Two broad rectangles where the approach path meets the runway.
A national prefix and a unique identifier painted on the airframe.
A mark for an automatic identification transmitter.
White and blue swallow-tail: a diver is down, keep clear at slow speed.
A grade that is an opinion.
A patterned mid-level layer of rounded cloudlets.
A shank with a crossbar and two curved arms, marking anchorages and maritime things generally.
An anchor mark within an outlined area.
An anchor mark showing where a vessel may anchor.
Red and white stripes, tapering.
A side elevation showing altitudes along a final approach.
Four white figures around a point on green, marking where to gather.
Five levels, not evenly spaced.
Twenty-six words standing for letters over a radio.
Colour standing for depth.
One bit, sent a hundred miles.
Wind force 0 to 12, described by what it does rather than measured.
A seated figure bent forward with hands on the head, on an aircraft safety card.
Plain red swallow-tail: dangerous cargo.
A stacked pile of stones marking a route, a summit or a place.
A triangle representing a tent, marking a camping site on a map.
A buoy with two cone topmarks, saying which side of a danger holds safe water.
The stated level all depths are measured from.
Yellow chevrons over pavement that must not be used.
A smaller figure in a lifejacket.
Fine curved streaks marking high ice cloud.
A marked point for a coastguard watch station.
A line with solid triangles along one side, marking advancing cold air.
A star-like figure of radiating points marking the cardinal directions on a map or chart.
A closed line joining points of equal height, showing the shape of the land.
A pictorial description sheet.
Tinted bands and figures giving a volume's ceiling and floor.
A line marking air streams meeting and rising.
An abbreviation marking coral on the seabed.
A heaped cloud drawn with a spreading anvil top.
A domed shape on a flat base, marking heaped fair-weather cloud.
A marked point where a vessel clears customs.
A hull outline with a dotted danger line around it.
A raft on a crane arm.
A figure falling into water inside a yellow warning triangle.
Yellow with a broad blue band: keep clear, I am manoeuvring with difficulty.
A line joining points of equal depth.
A small number printed on a chart, giving the depth of water at that point.
Arrows leading to a threshold set back from the paved end.
A lever and a placard beside an aircraft door showing armed and disarmed positions.
The full string of code flags flown for ceremony, spelling nothing.
Commas standing for drops too small to be rain.
A plain arrow showing the outgoing stream.
A spiral mark showing circulating water.
A figure descending a rope ladder over a ship's side.
A hood for getting out through smoke.
A white running figure heading through a door on green, marking the way out.
A figure jumping onto an inflated chute from an aircraft door.
Dashes warning of a holding point.
A beacon with radiating waves, marking an emergency position-indicating radio beacon.
A figure of eight on a dial.
Sent as eight dots run together.
A plan in a tube by the gangway.
A labelled flap in a duct.
A helmet, suit and breathing set.
Two handheld flags whose angles spell letters, one at a time.
A three-figure altitude flown on a standard pressure setting.
A feathered arrow showing the incoming stream.
Three stacked horizontal lines marking visibility below a kilometre.
A finger post naming a right.
A marked area where the bottom is obstructed.
A worded warning tied to a defined Beaufort force.
A bell or horn with radiating lines, marking the general emergency alarm.
The lines of latitude and longitude.
The ruled squares over a map, from which a position is quoted as a grid reference.
Letters laid out on the ground.
A triangle with a dot, marking ice pellets from a storm.
A marked point for the port authority office.
An angular infinity-like mark for suspended dry particles.
A letter H within a circle or a square touchdown area.
The sun, switched on and off.
A capital H inside a circle, marking a helicopter landing area.
Colour standing for height.
A buoy whose two cones say which side holds safe water.
Two cones base to base.
A blue and yellow striped mark with a cross.
A channel-side buoy whose colour depends on the region.
Two cones pointing up.
A can-shaped mark on the port side.
A lateral mark with a contrasting band.
Red to port on entering a channel.
Green to port on entering a channel.
Two cones pointing down.
A cone-shaped mark on the starboard side.
A shape fitted above a mark's body.
Two cones point to point.
Brazil's national map vocabulary.
A long thin country's map legend.
A ladder pattern you must not cross.
A figure in a full-body suit with a hood, marking immersion suit stowage.
Mexico's national map vocabulary.
A carried infant in a lifejacket.
The treaty-adopted flag code every seagoing vessel carries.
One flange that fits every port.
Alfa, Bravo, Charlie.
A line joining points of equal air pressure on a weather chart.
A dashed line joining points of equal magnetic variation.
A black and red buoy with two black balls.
A broad banded arrow showing a fast upper-level current.
A weed mark showing kelp on the seabed.
A figure wearing a buoyancy collar, marking where life jackets are stowed.
An inflatable raft with a canopy, marking where a liferaft canister is stowed.
A boat on a slipway or in a house, marking a crewed rescue station ashore.
A ring with four bands, marking a throwable buoyancy ring and its line.
An abbreviation giving a light's rhythm, colour and period.
A dot with a flare of colour, marking a light and its characteristics.
A rocket trailing a line.
Yellow lettering on black, naming where you are.
An escape route marked at floor level.
White lettering on red, marking a boundary not to be crossed.
A teardrop shape with a circular hole, marking a location on a digital map.
An outlined area of aquaculture structures.
Defined words from good to fog for how far can be seen.
A word meaning grave and imminent danger.
A coded aviation weather report in fixed abbreviated fields.
A grid reference you can say out loud.
A crescent — the Moon, and silver in alchemy.
A buoy shape marking a fixed mooring.
Dots and dashes — and a timing relationship that the printed form hides.
A small house on a contour map.
An abbreviation marking mud on the seabed.
A group of figures under an arrow, marking where to gather before evacuating a ship.
A stylised acorn marking a designated National Trail in England and Wales.
An acorn on a post.
Stencilled lettering on an aircraft surface marking unsupported skin.
A swimming figure in a red circle with a diagonal bar.
A wreck mark without an enclosing danger line.
Pavement that will not take weight.
A simple arrow with an N, stating which way is north on a map.
A coded notice of a temporary hazard or change.
A tapering flag carrying a digit.
A tower shape with heights above ground and above sea level.
A line carrying both triangles and semicircles, where a cold front has caught a warm one.
A horizontal bar above a broad arrow, cut into stone as a height reference.
A coloured dashed line on a British map, marking a class of right of way.
Red and yellow diagonal: man overboard.
A wavy mark showing steep breaking water.
Urgent, but nobody is dying.
Four lights showing whether an approach is high or low.
A shell pointing the way.
A marked circle where a pilot joins a vessel.
A colour that means something local.
A location as a short string.
A tiny line drawing of how pressure has moved over three hours.
A struck-through anchor marking a ban.
Sent as A and R run together.
Sent as A and S run together.
Sent as B and T run together.
Sent as K and N run together.
Sent as V and A run together.
Three letters standing for a whole sentence.
Three letters standing for a whole sentence.
Three letters standing for a whole sentence.
Three letters standing for a whole sentence.
Three letters standing for a whole sentence.
Two altimeter settings measuring from different datums.
Plain yellow: my vessel is healthy and I request free pratique.
A marked circle for a radar transponder beacon.
A colour ramp showing how strongly rain reflects radar.
A mark showing an aid fitted to return radar energy.
Filled dots whose number and grouping give rain's intensity and continuity.
A line marking a route advised for shipping.
A flag divided red over yellow, marking the lifeguarded bathing area.
A plain red flag flown at a beach, meaning the water is closed to bathing.
Light from the north-west.
The control that floods a space.
A small boat for recovering people.
A dashed rectangle with corner marks, showing where a fuselage may be cut open.
An outlined area where navigation is limited.
Lines radiating across a sea chart.
A zigzag or marked line along an axis of high pressure.
A cross-shaped mark for rock at chart datum.
An abbreviation marking rock on the seabed.
Two large white numerals at a runway threshold, giving its magnetic bearing.
Flashing yellow at the hold.
Two solid and two dashed yellow lines across a taxiway, marking a runway boundary.
A line down each runway edge.
A block of parallel white stripes across a runway, marking where landing may begin.
A red and white striped buoy with a single red ball.
An abbreviation marking sand on the seabed.
A ruled bar in alternating blocks, showing ground distance on a map.
Smooth, slight, rough, phenomenal — wave height in words.
Small letters saying what the bottom is made of.
A device that paints a radar screen.
A figure passing through an archway, marking the security search point.
Time struck in pairs.
Imminent, soon, later — and visibility words with exact ranges.
A solid triangle beneath a precipitation mark.
Five stripes: blue, white, red, white, blue.
Blue over red, halved.
A red diamond on white.
Six vertical stripes, yellow and blue.
White at the hoist, red at the fly.
A black circle on yellow.
Blue, white, blue in horizontal bands.
Yellow at the hoist, blue at the fly.
Yellow and black quarters.
A white diagonal cross on blue.
A blue and white chequerboard.
A white rectangle on blue.
A yellow cross on red.
A blue rectangle on white.
Red, white and blue vertical stripes.
Red and white quarters.
A blue cross on white.
Diagonal yellow and red stripes.
Four triangles: black, yellow, blue, red.
A report that means one thing.
A shutter over a light.
A marked point displaying visual signals to shipping.
A circle shaded in eighths to show how much sky is cloudy.
Six-pointed asterisks whose number gives the snowfall's intensity.
Three dots, three dashes, three dots.
A yellow buoy with a yellow cross topmark.
An outlined area where dredged material is dumped.
A four-digit octal code identifying an aircraft to radar.
A red line of lights across the taxiway.
A black cone hoisted point up or point down at a harbour.
A flat horizontal layer, the lowest and dullest cloud.
A wavy line marking a cable on the seabed.
A marked line for a pipeline on the seabed.
Triangular pennants that repeat a flag already flying.
Lines that are not evenly spaced.
A brass disc set in stone.
Five-figure groups encoding a whole observation for transmission.
A continuous yellow line along a taxiway, marking the path to follow.
A position as three words.
A bag on a line, marking a throwable rescue line.
A capital R with a hooked tail and an arrowhead.
A wavy mark showing disturbed water.
A gate of two uprights and two crossbars, marking the entrance to a shrine.
Paired bars beside the runway centreline counting distance.
Broad arrows and a bounded zone dividing shipping lanes.
A painted rectangle on a tree or rock, marking a route and its turns.
A small triangle with a central dot, marking a surveyed height and position.
Numbered intensity scales that differ between ocean basins.
A marked point for rock below chart datum.
A post above a buried line.
Metres east and north of a false origin.
White with a red saltire: I require assistance.
A radiating fan of lines on a map, marking a view and the direction of it.
A circle for calibrating a receiver.
A hexagon with a compass rose marking a radio navigation aid.
A letter grading the wake an aircraft leaves behind it.
A line with solid semicircles along one side, marking advancing warm air.
A lance that makes fog.
A coloured arrow on a post, marking a right of way and its status.
A graded colour scale from yellow to red for expected impact.
Blue, white and red rectangles nested: I require medical assistance.
An arrow showing wind direction on a public forecast map.
A shaft with feathers, giving wind direction and speed in one mark.
A hull or crossed-mast mark showing a sunken vessel.
A small triangle or hut outline marking a hostel on a walking map.