Dictionary

Unicode en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/ (US)
• /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/ (UK)

Etymology

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.

Meanings

1. (broadly, informal, uncountable) Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
   • Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

Forms

Relateds

UTF-8 · UTF-16 · ASCII · EBCDIC · UTF-7

Unicode en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/ (US)
• /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/ (UK)

Etymology

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:international standards) 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 Thaana script is written from right to left. Conformant implementations of Thaana script must use the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see Unicode Standard Annex #9, “Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm”). 2022 September 14, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode, page 535:
2. The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
   • convert to Unicode

Forms

Deriveds

Unicodify · Unicode font · Punycode · unicodification · Unicoder

Translations (68)

ig Yunikod (series of computer encoding standards) · sq Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · ko 유니코드 (series of computer encoding standards) · ru Юнико́д (series of computer encoding standards) · cy Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · hsb Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · bg Унико́д (series of computer encoding standards) · bn ইউনিকোড (series of computer encoding standards) · kn ಯುನಿಕೋಡ್ (series of computer encoding standards) · th ยูนิโคด (series of computer encoding standards) · cmn 萬國碼 /万国码 (series of computer encoding standards) · da Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · mr युनिकोड (series of computer encoding standards) · ia Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · hu Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · no Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · de Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · he יוניקוד (series of computer encoding standards) · es Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · be Юніко́д (series of computer encoding standards) · ca Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · byn ዩኒኮድ (series of computer encoding standards) · sh Уникод (series of computer encoding standards) · nl Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · ru Унико́д (series of computer encoding standards) · xan ዩኒኮድ (series of computer encoding standards) · ta யூனிக்கோடு (series of computer encoding standards) · pt Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · id Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · lv Unikods (series of computer encoding standards) · te విశ్వ సంకేత మాల (series of computer encoding standards) · el Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · sd يونيڪوڊ (series of computer encoding standards) · am ዩኒኮድ (series of computer encoding standards) · vi Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · sh Unikod (series of computer encoding standards) · kkh ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼ (series of computer encoding standards) · ja ユニコード (series of computer encoding standards) · km យូនិកូដ (series of computer encoding standards) · tr Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · sgw ዩኒኮድ (series of computer encoding standards) · ti ዩኒኮድ (series of computer encoding standards) · mi waehereao (series of computer encoding standards) · pl Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · cs Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · it Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · sv Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · yue 萬國碼 /万国码 (series of computer encoding standards) · tr Evrensel Kod (series of computer encoding standards) · ar يُونِيكُود (series of computer encoding standards) · hi यूनिकोड (series of computer encoding standards) · uk Юніко́д (series of computer encoding standards) · lt Unikodas (series of computer encoding standards) · ro Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · fr Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · mn Юникод (series of computer encoding standards) · yue 單一碼 /单一码 (series of computer encoding standards) · tl Yunikowd (series of computer encoding standards) · yue 統一碼 /统一码 (series of computer encoding standards) · hy Յունիկոդ (series of computer encoding standards) · fi Unicode (series of computer encoding standards) · cmn 統一碼 /统一码 (series of computer encoding standards) · fa یونیکد (series of computer encoding standards) · ka უნიკოდი (series of computer encoding standards) · eo Unikodo (series of computer encoding standards) · te యూనీకోడ్ (series of computer encoding standards) · cmn 單一碼 /单一码 (series of computer encoding standards) · ug يۇنىكود (series of computer encoding standards)