code point
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.
Example Sentences
- "In UTF-8, the number of bytes used to write a character to a file depends on the Unicode code point."
- "A code point is one entry in the Unicode character database. A code point is not the same as a character, depending on the meaning you give to “character.” What appears as a character on screen is called a grapheme in Unicode."
- "Today, Unicode defines 1,112,064 code points, far exceeding the 2-byte capacity originally set aside for Unicode characters. A Unicode code point is simply an integer value that Unicode associates with a particular character symbol; you can think of it as the Unicode equivalent of the ASCII code for a character."