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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halfwidth

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Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image occupies half of the character display cell. In legacy character sets, halfwidth characters are normally encoded in a single byte. The ...

Han characters

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Ideographic characters of Chinese origin.

Han unification

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The process of identifying Han characters that are in common among the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

Hangul

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The name of the script used to write the Korean language.

Hangul syllable

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(1) Any of the 11,172 encoded characters of the Hangul syllables character block, U+AC00..U+D7A3. Also called a precomposed Hangul syllable to clearly distinguish it from a Korean syllable block. (2) ...

Hanja

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The Korean name for Han characters; derived from the Chinese word hànzì.

hankaku

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The Japanese term for halfwidth characters. Japanese or other East Asian character sets whose glyph image occupies half of the character display cell. In legacy character sets, halfwidth characters ...