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Symbol 16:18

1620c

16:18 · Two structures, both basic gestalts in Western ideography, are combined in this ideogram. The graph for danger, heat, energy, 1611, is combined with the arrow sign 0419, which stands for directed movement. It is the Western world's most common ideogram for lightning, thunderstorm, and high voltage electric current. It is also a general sign for mythology in some dictionaries, and for the field or subject of electricity in other contexts.
    When it appears in a photographic context (e.g. on cameras), it signifies flashlight or flash bulb.
    Turned upside down, 1620b, it is used to indicate television station on certain maps.
    Compare with 5431b, radio station, on some maps.
    As a sign for lightning it is rather synonymous with the ancient sign 1105, the staff of Zeus or Jupiter, depicting a bundle of lightnings symbolizing divine power.