Unicode

English

Alternative forms

• unicode

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊd

Proper noun

Unicode

1. (international standards, computing) 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.

   • 2022 September, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode‎^[1], page 535:

     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”).

2. (computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

   convert to Unicode

Derived terms

• Unicode font

Translations

series of computer encoding standards

• Albanian: Unicode
• Amharic: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Arabic: يُونِيكُود (ar) m (yūnīkūd)
• Armenian: Յունիկոդ (Yunikod)
• Belarusian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Bengali: ইউনিকোড (bn) (iunikōḍ)
• Blin: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Bulgarian: Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Catalan: Unicode m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 統一碼 / 统一码 (tung² jat¹ maa⁵), 萬國碼 / 万国码 (maan⁶ gwok³ maa⁵), 單一碼 / 单一码 (daan¹ jat¹ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 統一碼 / 统一码 (zh) (tǒngyīmǎ), 萬國碼 / 万国码 (zh) (wànguómǎ), 單一碼 / 单一码 (zh) (dānyīmǎ)

• Czech: Unicode
• Danish: Unicode
• Dutch: Unicode (nl)
• Esperanto: Unikodo
• Finnish: Unicode (fi)
• French: Unicode (fr) m
• Georgian: უნიკოდი (uniḳodi)
• German: Unicode (de) m
• Greek: Unicode (el) n
• Hebrew: יוניקוד (he) (yunikod)
• Hindi: यूनिकोड (yūnikoḍ)
• Hungarian: Unicode (hu)
• Igbo: Yunikod
• Indonesian: Unicode
• Interlingua: Unicode
• Italian: Unicode (it) m
• Japanese: ユニコード (ja) (yunikōdo)
• Kannada: ಯುನಿಕೋಡ್ (yunikōḍ)
• Khün: ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼
• Korean: 유니코드 (ko) (yunikodeu)
• Latvian: Unikods m
• Lithuanian: Unikodas m
• Maori: waehereao
• Marathi: युनिकोड (yunikoḍ)
• Mongolian: Юникод (Junikod)
• Norwegian: Unicode
• Persian: یونیکد (yuni-kod), یونی‌کد (yuni-kod)
• Polish: Unicode (pl)
• Portuguese: Unicode (pt) m
• Romanian: Unicode (ro) m
• Russian: Юнико́д (ru) m (Junikód), Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Sebat Bet Gurage: ዩኒኮድ
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Уникод m

  Roman: Unikod m

• Sindhi: يونيڪوڊ (eõekoḍ)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Unicode

• Spanish: Unicode (es) m
• Swedish: Unicode
• Tagalog: Yunikowd
• Tamil: யூனிக்கோடு (yūṉikkōṭu)
• Telugu: విశ్వ సంకేత మాల (te) (viśva saṅkēta māla), యూనీకోడ్ (yūnīkōḍ)
• Thai: ยูนิโคด (yooníkôht)
• Tigrinya: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Turkish: Evrensel Kod, Unicode
• Ukrainian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Uyghur: يۇنىكود (yunikod)
• Vietnamese: Unicode (vi)
• Welsh: Unicode (cy)
• Xamtanga: ዩኒኮድ

Noun

Unicode (uncountable)

1. (computing, by extension, informal) 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.

See also

• ASCII
• EBCDIC
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode
• Appendix:Unicode/Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

Further reading

• Unicode website

Anagrams

• doucine

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Unicode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.ni.kod/

Proper noun

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)

Usage notes

Although it graphically starts with a vowel, the starting semi-consonantal sound causes the article form to be used to be lo instead of l'.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Unicode.

Proper noun

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Unicode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uniˈkode/ [u.niˈko.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ode
• Syllabification: U‧ni‧co‧de

Proper noun

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)