A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z Hebrew: Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv V v “The vessels of venerable virtues are void of villainy.” The shape of the ‘V’ implies a cone, or vortex — and a process of attenuation, or collection from an upper dimension to a lower one. Alternately, we can see the opposite process — the small becoming large. Emanation or growth is indicated by this perspective. When we unify these understandings we can see the potential for a state which reverses, back and forth — similar to vibration. There is at once a receptive quality which is indicated in travel toward the point, and an emanative quality, implied by travel toward the opening. Seen from the top down, two elements move toward unification; from the bottom up, toward ever-greater distinction. Both directions imply an infinite process, which needn’t end at the limits of the letterform. The ‘drawing inward” quality of ‘V’ has precedence over the emanative. Penetration and division are implied by the tooth-like shape of the letter. We can see this aspect of character demonstrated in vision, a word for sight that implies an ability to distinguish the elements of the visual field into identities. There is a relationship between ‘V’ and ‘M’, in that the letter ‘V’ is essentially ‘M’ with the vertical pillars removed. This indicates attractivity in general, contrasted with specific qualities of attraction. There is the indication of ‘potential’, as in a variable aspect of precursors to embodiment or manifestation. As a symbol, ‘V’ is used in some disciplines to indicate electrical potential, or potential energy. Character Classes to which ‘V’ belongs: Crossing over between reflections or poles (?) Folding Bisymmetrical Diagonal Stroke(s) Letters whose miniscule is very close to the shape of their majuscule   o:O:o Vacant — Empty, particularly used to refer to domiciles, plots of land, and housing. Vacuum — A depressurized state; particularly, lacking atmospheric pressure, such as space. Additionally, to suck out or up, such as with a machine called a vacuum or vacuum pump. Vagina — The female genitalia or receptive duct in animals. Vagrant — A wanderer, or someone of little or no social statues or means. Vague — Unclear or indefinite. Valence — A degree of attractivity or combining power, particularly as a behavioral goal. Validity — The property of being true, formally correct, or relevant or meaningful. Valor — Bravery and uprightness in character or action. Vapor — Diffused matter, suspended or floating in atmosphere, particularly gases emanating from certain aromatic herbal extracts or chemistries. Variable — A changeable or as yet unspecified quantity. Vector — A quantity having magnitude (usually length) and direction. An angle of approach or departure. A way. Additionally, a transport of connectivity between beings, such as a virus or causative agent of disease or well-being. Vegetable — Of, relating to or constituting plant life. Additionally, an edible plant or portion of a plant which does not formally qualify as ‘fruit’ but often represents a fruiting body. Veil — A sheet of cloth or other substance use to obscure or cover something/one. Additionally, to cover, hide, protect or obscure. Vehicle — A transport, particularly a physical transport used to move people, substances, force or goods. Venerable — Worthy of reverence or admiring deference. Venture — An undertaking involving risk or chance. Verb — A part of speech denoting action. Verdict — A summary decision, especially by a legal body or bureaucratic collective. Verse — A line of metrical writing or a stanza of a poem. Vertebrate — An animal having a bony spinal column. Vertical — Located at right angles to a plane or supporting surface. The orientation commonly referred to as ‘up-and-down’. Very — Muchly or extremely. Often used to emphasize some quality or characteristic. Vessel — A container used to hold or transport something. Additionally, a vehicle of transport used on or in waters, or in air or space. Vex — To trouble or harass. Vibration — A periodic motion in a body or medium in opposing directions from a state of equilibrium. Alternately, a quivering or trembling motion. Also, an intuitively sensed emanation, aura, or spirit. Vicarious — Serving in the stead of something. Additionally, experienced or realized through sympathetic participation in the experience of one or more others. Vicious — Cruel, harsh or terrible. Victim — One who suffers ill effects; particularly those directed by one or more others who act to cause harm. View — To experience the seeing of. Additionally, a perspective on something/one. Vigor — Active mental, spiritual or physical vitality, strength or force. Vile — Evil, harmful, ugly or terrible. Villain — A person bent on immoral acts or harming others. Virgin — Pure; particularly a human being who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. Virtue — A quality judged or commonly perceived as good, ethical, prosperous, or rare and desirable. Virus — An exceptionally minute agent of disease, which may act as a transport of genetic material amongst beings of different species. Viscous — The property of a liquid or semifluid that enables it to to develop and maintain an amount of shearing stress dependant on flow, and to offer continued resistance to flow. Vision — Something witnessed in a dream, communication from a divine being, trance, or ecstasy. Additionally, the act or power of seeing. Also, the power of uncommonly sophisticated or accurate imagination. Vitality — The quality distinguishing life from inanimate matter. Additionally, physical, spiritual or mental vigor. Voice — To give utterance to. Sound produced by means of the vocal apparatus. Void — Null, or entirely lacking quality, form, content, character, parts, or members. Empty. Volition — The power of choosing or determining. Volume — Space occupied as measured according to a particular standardized system. Vortex — A mass of fluid or air which is spiraling, drawing nearby substances or objects toward and into it. Vow — To swear to or make an oath. A emphatic or solemn promise or assertion. Vowel — A speech sound generally without audible frictions. Additionally, a letter used in writing to indicate such sounds. In English: A E I O U and sometimes Y. Vowels are often missing from Hebrew (and many other) writing systems, and are supplied by the reader from context or additional markings (vowel points) to letters preceding them. They are considered ‘connective’ elements with a spiritual basis, which unify and envitalize the ‘mundane’ elements of the consonants. Vulgar — Understood in the common or ordinary sense. Additionally, lacking in desirable qualities such as sophistication, ethics, morals, or perception. Also, crude, primitive or offensive.   A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z Hebrew: Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv