черенки

Etymology
Plural of 🇨🇬, from, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

The semantic development of черенка into "a single font glyph" is not fully clear. Possibly as follows: "handle; stem" → "[metal] knife handle" → "long metal handle, stem" → "metal stem that holds a typographic symbol". The very first printing presses used a set of metal glyphs that looked like long thin stems with a convex symbols on the tips.

Noun

 * 1)  font, type