unicode
/ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
name
The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
noun
Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
Informal; Uncountable
name
Alternative letter-case form of Unicode.
Example Sentences
- "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”)."
- "convert to Unicode"
- "Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes."
- "As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/
- British English: /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/