We also present several other kinds of cross-language wordplay for the same aim, including dual-writing-system “crossings” and “interdigigrams”. In this post, we present a team-compiled list of several of our favorite English ambigrams as well as some excellent cross-linguistic ambigrams to help learners of other languages (e.g., Korean, Chinese, French, German, Hindu, and Urdu) learn new words in a creative way. We LanGoers love ambigrams not only because we appreciate fun and imaginative wordplay, but they can also be great visual mnemonics for vocabulary in your target language. the same image now spells the word “holiday”! In some examples below, we’ll see that the two readings (or ‘messages’) conveyed by an ambigram need not be in a single language. In Figure 2, viewed one way, the written marks spell the word “happy”.
