The update under the article has an explanation of where the name probably came from: > I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descri

The update under the article has an explanation of where the name probably came from: > I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. If I understand this correctly in the context, this person named the glyph based on what it looked like. So it wasn't the other way around.