Patience
Patience is so hard!
When I want to talk,
I have to be patient
With the person I am talking to.
I have to wait for them
To get my message.
Things
When my mind is full of things,
Things that I don’t like to think about
I’m full of fears.
I settle my mind on things,
Things I like to think about
Then I’m full of joy!
BCI Authorized Vocabulary of Blissymbolics (BCI-AV) 2025
Here is the current BCI-AV. There are now a total of 6183 symbols. Several graphics formats are provided as well as accompanying documentation. You can browse it online in Google Sheets format and several graphics formats are provided below for download as well as accompanying documentation.
Full symbol sets in various formats
The file names below are mostly self-explanatory. The number after h indicates the height of the symbols and w indicates their width. The suffix indicates the type of files the map contains (e.g. png, bmp, svg or wmf).
- Release notes BCI-AV 2025-02-15
- bliss_svg.zip
- bliss_svg_id.zip
- bliss_h1000_transp_png.zip
- bliss_h432_transp_wmf.zip
- bliss_h1000_bmp.zip
- bliss_h188_documentation_png.zip
- bliss_h188_documentation_id_png.zip
- ID to gloss map text file
- BCI-AV_2025-02-15 (WinBliss format)
Documentation on the symbol sets
- Excel spreadsheet with ID's, glosses, and derivations but without symbols (more manageable)
- Google Sheets spreadsheet with ID's, glosses, symbols, and derivations
- PDF (landscape format - larger symbols and text when printed) with symbols: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, French
- PDF (portrait format - fewer pages) with symbols: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, French