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tripled – H2O

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Tripled seems to be humankind's most common ideogram for water in general and for streaming or flowing water in particular.  

Image In the earliest Chinese ideography <img class=” size-full wp-image-370″ src=”https://www.bookofthrees.com/tripled-h2o/”24″ height=”13″ hspace=”6″ alt=”Image” title=”Image” border=”0″ width=”24″ height=”13″ /> represented river or stream.

 

 

In modern electrical engineering it signifies three-phased alternating current, the most common type of current in industrialized countries. This sign in more specialized contexts can also mean alternating current of a frequency that is above the audible level.

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