◙ (也作 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（尤指传统木板画，受到拜占庭教会等东正教会的膜拜，亦作为上呈教会的奉献） 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。 [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 [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）
【语源】
1. mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'simile'): via Latin from Greek eikōn 'likeness, image'. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent. onwards