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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jungseong filler

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U+1160 hangul jungseong filler. Abbreviated as Vf. * A jungseong filler stands in for a missing jungseong to make a well-formed Korean syllable.

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 ...

kanji

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The Japanese name for Han characters; derived from the Chinese word hànzì. Also romanized as kanzi.

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), ...

kerning

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(1) Changing the space between certain pairs of letters to improve the appearance of the text. (2) The process of mapping from pairs of glyphs to a positioning offset used to change the space between ...

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 ...