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UTF16

UTF16 is the alternative spelling of UTF-16.

Meaning of UTF-16

Proper noun

UTF-16

  1. (Unicode) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).

Questions about UTF16

What is UTF16 the alternative spelling of?
UTF16 is the alternative spelling of UTF-16.

Words near UTF16 in the dictionary

  1. UTF
  2. UTF-16
  3. UTF-32
  4. UTF-7
  5. UTF-8
  6. UTF16
  7. UTF7
  8. UTF8
  9. utfangenethef
  10. utfangenthef
  11. utfangethef

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Adapted from Wiktionary: UTF16 (page history and authors); UTF-16 (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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