| Name |
Text |
Image |
| IPA |
ˈjunɪˌkoːd |
 |
| American Dictionary |
Ūnĭcōde̽ |
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| Anglo-saxon |
ᛡᚢᚾᛁᚳᚩᛞ |
 |
| Arabic |
يونِكود |
 |
| Armenian |
Յունիկօդ |
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| Bengali |
য়ূনিকোড |
 |
| Bopomofo |
ㄊㄨㄥ˅ ㄧˋ ㄇㄚ˅ |
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| ㄨㄢˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄚ˅ |
 |
| Canadian Syllabics |
ᔫᗂᑰᑦ |
 |
| Cherokee |
ᏳᏂᎪᏛ |
 |
| Chinese |
统一码 |
 |
| 統一碼 |
 |
| 万国码 |
 |
| 萬國碼 |
 |
| Deseret (English) |
??????? |
 |
| Ethiopic |
ዩኒኮድ |
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| Georgian |
უნიკოდი |
 |
| Greek |
Γιούνικοντ |
 |
| Gujarati |
યૂનિકોડ |
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| Gurmukhi |
ਯੂਨਿਕੋਡ |
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| Hebrew |
יוניקוד |
 |
| Hebrew (pointed) |
יוּנִיקוׁד |
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| Hindi |
यूनिकोड |
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| Japanese |
ユニコード |
 |
| Kannada |
ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ |
 |
| Khmer |
យូនីគោដ |
 |
| Korean |
유니코드 |
 |
| Malayalam |
യൂനികോഡ് |
 |
| MONGOLIAN |
tbd |
 |
| MYANMAR |
tbd |
 |
| Ogham |
ᚔᚒᚅᚔᚉᚑᚇ |
 |
| Oriya |
ୟୂନିକୋଡ |
 |
| Persian |
یونیکُد |
 |
| Russian |
Юникод |
 |
| Sinhala |
යණනිකෞද් |
 |
| Syriac |
ܝܘܢܝܩܘܕ |
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| Tamil |
யூனிகோட் |
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| Telugu |
యూనికోడ్ |
 |
| THAANA |
tbd |
 |
| Thai |
ยูนืโคด |
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| Dzongkha |
ཨུ་ནི་ཀོཌྲ། |
 |
| YI |
tbd |
 |
| Yiddish |
יוניקאָד |
 |
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. The goal here is at a
minimum to collect at least one transcription for each script in a language
customarily written in that script, with more languages if possible. If the
transcription is the same for multiple languages in a script, then a single
representative language is used.
Still missing are transcriptions for the items above in RED
(in at least one language). I would appreciate any other transcriptions, or
corrections for the ones listed here. Send to mark3@macchiato.com,
using the directions below:
- Supplying Missing Items
- Most Latin-script languages will follow the spelling, and change the
pronunciation. For any that would not, it would be good to have the
alternate spelling.
- For non-Latin scripts the goal is
to match the English pronunciation — not spelling. Above
is the IPA (in phonemic transcription) that should be
matched as closely as possible (without sounding affected in the target
language)
- Text would be best in either the UTF-8 text, or the code points in hex
HTML. E.g. either of the following:
- "Юникод"
- "Юникод"
- Note: for supplementary
characters, there should be one hex number per code point,
not two surrogates:
- 𐀀 not �&xDC00;
- If you have a good font, I'd also appreciate a GIF. It should be 96
x 24 bits, with the text centered, in black on white (plus grays if
smoothed).
- Other Comments
- Because some browsers won't handle the text, both text and GIF image
are supplied. If you can’t read the text columns, see Display
Problems.
- The Chinese versions (inc. Bopomofo) are translations, not
transcriptions, since "transcription in Chinese is pretty
lame" [J. Becker].
- There are other "translations" of Unicode that may be in
use, such as the Vietnamese "Thống Nhất Mã".
- For sample pages in different languages on the Unicode site, see What
is Unicode?
- Americans are not generally used to
IPA, and find a variety of different systems in their dictionaries. This
one leaves the base letters as they are, and uses diacritics for
pronunciation.
- Etymology of Unicode
- Coined by J. Becker. Not related to previous usages, such as:
- A telegraphic code in which one word or set of letters represents
a sentence or phrase; a telegram or message in this. (late 19th
century, OED)
- According to my references, the prefix "uni" is directly
from Latin while the word "code" is through French.
- The original Indo-European apparently would have been *oino-kau-do
("one strike give"): *kau apparently being related to
such English words as: hew, haggle, hoe, hag, hay, hack, caudad, caudal,
caudate, caudex, coda, codex, codicil, coward, incus, and Kovač
(personal name: "smith").
- I will leave the exact derivations to the exegetes, but I like the
association with "haggle" myself.
- Contributions
- This draws on contributions or comments from:
- Dixon Au
- Joe Becker
- Maurice Bauhahn
- Peter Constable
- Michael Everson
- Christopher John Fynn
- Michael Kaplan
- George Kiraz
- Abdul Malik
- Siva Nataraja
- Roozbeh Pournader
- Jonathan Rosenne
- Jungshik Shin
