Sample Transcriptions and Translations of "Unicode"

This page provides sample transcriptions or translations of the word "Unicode" using a variety of scripts. These transcriptions or translations are provided for information only, and have no normative or prescriptive status. They are not specified or maintained by the Unicode Technical Committee. See the notes below the tables for information about interpretation of the entries.

Sample Transcriptions

Script	Language	Text	Image
Arabic	Arabic	يونِكود
Arabic	Persian	یونی‌کُد
Arabic	Urdu	یونی کوڈ
Armenian	Armenian	Յունիկօդ
Balinese	Balinese	ᬬᬸᬦᬶᬓᭀᬥ᭄
Bengali	Bangla	য়ূনিকোড
Buginese	Buginese	ᨐᨘᨊᨗᨀᨚᨉ
Buhid	Buhid	ᝌᝓᝈᝒᝃᝓᝇ
Canadian Syllabics	Not specified	ᔫᗂᑰᑦ
Cherokee	Cherokee	ᏳᏂᎪᏛ
Cyrillic	Russian	Юникод
Cyrillic	Serbian	Уникод
Deseret	English	𐐏𐐭𐑌𐐮𐐿𐐬𐐼
Devanagari	Hindi	यूनिकोड
Ethiopic	Not specified	ዩኒኮድ
Georgian	Georgian	უნიკოდი
Greek	Greek	Γιούνικοντ
Gujarati	Gujarati	યૂનિકોડ
Gurmukhi	Punjabi	ਯੂਨਿਕੋਡ
Hangul	Korean	유니코드
Hebrew	Hebrew	יוניקוד
Hebrew (pointed)	Hebrew	יוּנִיקוׁד
Hebrew	Yiddish	יוניקאָד
Hiragana	Japanese	ゆにこおど
Javanese	Javanese	ꦪꦸꦤꦶꦺꦏꦴꦝ꧀
Katakana	Japanese	ユニコード
Kannada	Kannada	ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್
Khmer	Khmer	យូនីគោដ
Lao	Lao	ຢູນີໂຄດ
Latin	English	Unicode
Latin (IPA)	English	ˈjunɪˌkoːd
Latin (Dictionary)	English	Ūnĭcōde̽
Latin	Esperanto	Unikodo
Malayalam	Malayalam	യൂനികോഡ്
Ogham	Not specified	ᚔᚒᚅᚔᚉᚑᚇ
Oriya	Oriya	ୟୂନିକୋଡ
Philippine (Baybayin)	Tagalog	ᜌᜓᜈᜒᜃᜓᜇ᜔
Runic	Anglo-Saxon	ᛡᚢᚾᛁᚳᚩᛞ
Sinhala	Sinhala	යණනිකෞද්
Sundanese	Sundanese	ᮚᮥᮔᮤᮊᮧᮓ᮪
Syriac	Not specified	ܝܘܢܝܩܘܕ
Tamil	Tamil	யூனிகோட்
Telugu	Telugu	యూనికోడ్
Thaana	Divehi	ޔުނިކޮޑް
Thai	Thai	ยูนืโคด
Tibetan	Tibetan (Dzongkha)	ཡུ་ནི་ཀོཌྲ།

 

Sample Translations

Script	Language	Text	Image
Bopomofo	Chinese (Mandarin)	ㄊㄨㄥˇ ㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ
		ㄨㄢˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄚˇ
Han	Chinese	统一码
		統一碼
		万国码
		萬國碼
Latin	Chinese (Cantonese)	tung2 jat1 maa5	tung2 jat1 maa5
		maan6 gwok3 maa5	maan6 gwok3 maa5
Latin	Chinese (Mandarin)	Tǒngyīmǎ
		Wànguómǎ
Latin	Vietnamese	Thống Nhất Mã

Notes

Both the text in Unicode and a GIF image of the intended display are supplied in the tables. If you cannot read the text columns in your browser, see Display Problems.

There are different ways to transcribe the word “Unicode”, depending on the language and script. In some cases there is only one language that customarily uses a given script; in others there are many languages. If the typical transcription is the same for multiple languages in a script, then a single representative language is shown.

Most languages using the Latin script follow the spelling of "Unicode", but may change the pronunciation from that generally used in English. A typical English pronunciation is shown in the IPA entry in the transcription table. Variations occur, depending on local usage and accents, and the IPA transcription may vary, depending on how broadly or narrowly it is used—for example: [ˈʲunəˌkʰoʷd]. Typical local language adaptations of the English pronunciation may include dropping the initial [j] glide, changing to pure vowels instead of diphthongs, modifications of the stress pattern, changes to voicing or aspiration of the consonants, or adding a final vowel. Adaptations based on pronunciations more like [ˈunikod] or [ˈunikodo] are quite common. Occasionally, the spelling of "Unicode" may also be changed in the Latin script, to reflect local usage of letters and/or pronunciation of the word.

For non-Latin scripts the intent for transcriptions has been to match either the standard English or local pronunciations of the word "Unicode", rather than to provide transliterations of the letters of the word.

To suggest additions or make corrections to the samples in these tables please use the contact form. When making suggestions for additions or corrections, please include both the suggested spelling (in UTF-8 or as an explicit list of Unicode code points) and a GIF image of the intended display. The GIF image should be 96 x 24 pixels, with the text centered, in black on white (plus grays if smoothed).

Acknowledgments

This page was originally produced by Mark Davis. Other contributors include: Dixon Au, Joe Becker, Maurice Bauhahn, Abel Cheung, Peter Constable, Richard Cook, Michael Everson, Christopher John Fynn, John Jenkins, Michael Kaplan, George Kiraz, Abdul Malik, Siva Nataraja, Roozbeh Pournader, Jonathan Rosenne, and Jungshik Shin, Siddhant Seema Suresh, and Ken Whistler.

 

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