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/ˈaɪkɒn/(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（尤指传统手法木板画, 在拜占庭等东正教会受膜拜, 亦作为祈祷用品）。
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- 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。
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- 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。
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- 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）。
词源
mid 16th cent. （in the sense 'simile'）： via Latin from Greek eikōn 'likeness, image'. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent. onwards.