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icon
[ˈʌɪkɒn, -k(ə)n]
(亦作 ikon)
noun
  1. a painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches
    基督画像；圣人画像（尤指传统木板画，受到拜占庭教会等东正教会的膜拜，亦作为上呈教会的奉献）
    ■a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something
    代表，典型
    this iron-jawed icon of American manhood.
    美国坚毅男子的典型形象。
    ■(Computing)a symbol or graphic representation on a VDU screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection
    (计算机)图标，图符
    ■(Linguistics)a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way
    (语言学)类象符号（如“咆哮”一词以咆哮方式发音）
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'simile'): via Latin from Greek eikōn 'likeness, image'. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent. onwards
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