Unicode.
A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
Meaning & usage
A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
This character isn't in Unicode.
The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
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Where this word comes from
Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
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Where this word comes from
Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.