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Unihan

Unihan proper noun: a character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.

Proper noun (1)

Unihan

  1. A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.

Proper noun (2)

Unihan

  1. (Unicode) The Unicode Han database, or Unihan Database: metadata for the Han characters encoded in Unicode.

Origin of Unihan

From uni- + Han.

Blend of Unicode + Han.

Questions about Unihan

What does Unihan mean?
Unihan means a character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.
What part of speech is Unihan?
Unihan is a proper noun.

Words near Unihan in the dictionary

  1. unigraphs
  2. unigravida
  3. unigravidae
  4. uniguttate
  5. uniguttulate
  6. Unihan
  7. unihemispheric
  8. unihockey
  9. unihormonal
  10. unihorn
  11. unihorns

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