Middle Ages knowledge of the fabulous beast stemmed from Re'em and ancient sources, and the creature was variously represented as a kind of Onager, goat, or horse.

It has a traditional name, variously represented as Lukida, Lucida Anseris, or Anser, a tradition kept from when the constellation had the name Vulpecula et Anser 'the fox and the goose'.

But some of the chronic forms of mental illness that are variously represented in David's symptoms do "burn out" to an extent over time.

For many lexical particles, there is no single standard Hanji character to represent these terms (e.g. m , a negative particle, can be variously represented by 毋, 呣, and 唔), but the most commonly used ones are presented below in examples.

These were variously represented as gh, ġh, gh', gh˙ and with two letters not represented in Unicode (they resembled an upside down U).

The poem takes the form of a dream vision in which Margaret is represented by a rose and James is represented variously by a lion, an eagle and a thistle.

The Latin name Hercules was borrowed through Etruscan, where it is represented variously as Heracle, Hercle, and other forms.

Common grammatical particles are not exempt; the negation particle m (not) is variously represented by 毋, 呣 or 唔, among others.