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A crenellated line with towers.
Also known as: Great Wall map symbol
Denotes the Great Wall on a Chinese topographic map, a feature with a symbol of its own.
Denotes the Great Wall on a Chinese topographic sheet.
Contexts: Maps
Gets a symbol of its own rather than being drawn as a generic wall or ruin, which is a decision about national significance made inside a technical specification; the symbol distinguishes standing sections from traces, so the map records the wall's condition as well as its line.
Contexts: Maps
A line drawn with regular square projections along one side standing for battlements, broken at intervals by a small filled block standing for a tower.