The following words are the full name of these symbols.
| Symbols | Spanish | French |
| P = thumb | Pulgar | Pouce |
| i = index | indice | index |
| m = middle finger | medio | majeur หรือ medius |
| a = ring finger | anular | annulaire |
| c, ch, e = little finger | cuarto, chico | doigt extreme |
In fact, the little finger is called as 'auriculaire' in French, yet,
replaced by 'e' instead of 'a', for the purpose of making difference of
the first alphabet of the ring finger (annulaire).
'e' derives from 'extreme' which could be called 'doigt extreme' or
'petit doigt' either.
Apart from this, there are other symbols as follows:
| + | or | X | = | thumb |
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= | index | ||
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or |
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= | middle finger |
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or |
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= | ring finger |
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or |
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= | little finger |
While the symbols of the left fingers are used by figures which starting from index and noted here that thumb is not used for pressing strings so there is no figure symbol for it.
| 1 | = | index |
| 2 | = | middle finger |
| 3 | = | ring finger |
| 4 | = | little finger |
The symbols of strings are shown by figures surrounded by circle while the 'open string' is symbolised as a small circle.
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= | the open string |
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= | the first string (e) |
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= | the second string (b) |
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= | the third string (g) |
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= | the fourth string (D) |
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= | the fifth string (A) |
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= | the sixth string (E) |
