IC, XC

 

Christogram (그리스도를 뜻하는 요약어)

 In Eastern Christianity, the most widely used Christogram is a four-letter abbreviation,

ICXC — a traditional abbreviation of the Greek words for "Jesus Christ" (i.e., the first and last letters of each of the words ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ — written "IHCOYC XPICTOC" with a transliteration of the lunate sigma common in medieval Greek as "C"). On icons, this Christogram may be split:

"IC" on the left of the image and "XC" on the right, most often with a bar above the letters (see titlos), indicating that it is a sacred name. It is sometimes rendered as

 "ICXC NIKA", meaning "Jesus Christ Conquers."

 

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