Blisssymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985), a Jewish man who was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald before he was released and was later exiled to Shanghai, China. While in China, Bliss became inspired by Chinese characters and came up with his own system to help people communicate internationally using ideographs. Blisssymbols are still used today and are awaiting Unicode Character Standardization.
Blisssymbols
Examples of Blissymbols
Cunha, João & Martins, Pedro & Cardoso, Amílcar & Machado, Penousal. (2015). Generation of Concept-Representative Symbols.
Unicode Chart 
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
| Alternate Names | Blissymbolics, Semantography, World Writing, Bliss |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | Blis 550 |
| Type | Ideographic |
| Family | Artificial |
| Direction | Varies |
| Diacritics | No |
| Contextual Forms | Yes |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 5000+ |
| Inventor | Charles K. Bliss |
| Earliest Location | Shanghai, China |
| Earliest Date | 1949 CE |
| Latest Date | Present |
| Ancestry |
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Overview
Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bliss, Charles Kasiel. dn | 1949 | Synopsis of semantography; a non-alphabetical symbol writing readable in all languages; a practical tool for general international communication, especially in science, industry, commerce, traffic, etc., and for semantical education, based on the principles of ideographic writing and chemical symbolism | Sydney: Institute for Semantogrpahy |
| Blisssymbolics Communication International (BCI) | 2004 | The fundamental rules of Blissymbolics: creating new Blissymbolics characters and vocabulary | Blisssymbolics Communication International (BCI) |
| Crockford, Douglas | 2003 | Lesson One: An Introduction to Blisssymbols | Blissym Language Institute |
| Everson, Michael | 2020 | Toward encoding Blyssymbolics in Phase 1 of the UCS | Unicode |