English Explanatory Dictionary

Unicode

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
  2. The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
noun
  1. Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
name
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Unicode.

Pronunciation

/ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/ /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/ en-uk-Unicode.ogg

Word forms

Unicode

Etymology

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

Related words

ASCII EBCDIC UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16

Derived words

Unicode font
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