Unicode standard

Unicode standard

The Unicode standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.

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Extended base

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Any base character, or any standard Korean syllable block. This term is defined to take into account the fact that sequences of Korean conjoining jamo characters behave as if they were a single ...

Folding

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An operation that maps similar characters to a common target, such as uppercasing or lowercasing a string. Folding operations are most often used to temporarily ignore certain distinctions between ...

Ligature

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A glyph representing a combination of two or more characters. In the Latin script, there are only a few in modern use, such as the ligatures between "f" and "i" or "f" and "l". Other scripts make use ...

Korean syllable block

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A sequence of Korean jamos, consisting of one or more leading consonants followed by one or more vowels followed by zero or more trailing consonants, or any canonically equivalent sequence including ...

Leading consonant

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(1) In Korean, a jamo character with the Hangul_Syllable_Type property value Leading_Jamo (in the range U+1100..U+1159 or U+115F HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER). Abbreviated as L. (2) Any initial consonant ...

Katakana

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One of two standard syllabaries associated with the Japanese writing system. Katakana syllables are typically used in representation of borrowed vocabulary (other than that of Chinese origin), ...

Kana

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The name of a primarily syllabic script used by the Japanese writing system. It comes in two forms, hiragana and katakana. The former is used to write particles, grammatical affixes, and words that ...