Deciphering Laundry Symbols

Not sure if it’s just me, but I have found it extremely difficult to remember what the laundry care symbols mean. Being paranoid about not wanting to ruin a piece of clothing, I find myself Googling what each of the icons represent: “what does the dot inside a circle inside a square mean again? Is it dry clean or no dry clean? Is the dot a good thing or a bad thing?”

The American Cleaning Institute (!!) has created a guide that actually helps! Instead of remembering every single permutation, you simply need to remember the following 5 symbols:

And the following modifiers:

Nonetheless, still incredibly confusing, since not all the icons adhere to this syntax. What does this mean?

The vertical three lines: drip drying; the diagonal lines: in the shade