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private-use characters

private-use characters is the plural of private-use character.

Meaning of private-use character

Noun

private-use character (plural private-use characters)

  1. A character whose use is defined by private users and companies rather than defined by a standard such as Unicode, and which therefore has no universally accepted meaning.

Questions about private-use characters

What is private-use characters the plural of?
Private-use characters is the plural of private-use character.

Words near private-use characters in the dictionary

  1. private-messaged
  2. private-messages
  3. private-messaging
  4. private-sector
  5. private-use character
  6. private-use characters
  7. private-wire house
  8. private-wire houses
  9. privated
  10. privateer
  11. privateered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: private-use characters (page history and authors); private-use character (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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