? *Unicode Transcriptions* Notes <#Notes> Glyphs | Samples | Charts | UTF | Forms | Home . Name Text Image Arabic (Arabic) يونِكود ? Arabic (Persian) یونی‌کُد / ?/ Armenian Յունիկօդ Bengali য়ূনিকোড Bopomofo ㄊㄨㄥ˅ ㄧˋ ㄇㄚ˅ ㄨㄢˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄚ˅ Braille Buhid Canadian Aboriginal ᔫᗂᑰᑦ Cherokee ᏳᏂᎪᏛ Cypriot Cyrillic (Russian) Юникод ? Deseret (English) ??????? Devanagari (Hindi) यूनिकोड ? Ethiopic ዩኒኮድ Georgian უნიკოდი ? Gothic Greek Γιούνικοντ Gujarati યૂનિકોડ Gurmukhi ਯੂਨਿਕੋਡ Han (Chinese) 统一码 ? 統一碼 ? 万国码 ? 萬國碼 ? Hangul 유니코드 Hanunoo Hebrew יוניקוד Hebrew (pointed) יוּנִיקוׁד Hebrew (Yiddish) יוניקאָד ? Hiragana (Japanese) ゆにこおど Katakana (Japanese) ユニコード ? Kannada ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ Khmer យូនីគោដ Lao Latin Unicode Unicode Latin (IPA <#English_Pronunciation>) ˈjunɪˌkoːd ? Latin (Am. Dict. <#American_Dictionary>) Ūnĭcōde̽ ? Limbu Linear B Malayalam യൂനികോഡ് Mongolian Myanmar Ogham ᚔᚒᚅᚔᚉᚑᚇ / / Old Italic Oriya ୟୂନିକୋଡ Osmanya Runic (Anglo-Saxon) ᛡᚢᚾᛁᚳᚩᛞ Shavian Sinhala යණනිකෞද් Syriac ܝܘܢܝܩܘܕ Tagbanwa Tagalog Tai Le Tamil யூனிகோட் Telugu యూనికోడ్ Thaana Thai ยูนืโคด Tibetan (Dzongkha) ཨུ་ནི་ཀོཌྲ། Ugaritic Yi Notes: 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* o 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. o For non-Latin scripts the goal is to match the English pronunciation — /*not*/ spelling. Above is the IPA <#IPA> (in phonemic transcription) that should be matched as closely as possible (without sounding affected in the target language) o 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; o 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* o 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 . o The Chinese versions (inc. Bopomofo) are translations, not transcriptions, since "transcription in Chinese is pretty lame" [J. Becker]. o There are other "translations" of Unicode that may be in use, such as the Vietnamese "Thống Nhất Mã". o For sample pages in different languages on the Unicode site, see What is Unicode? o 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/* o 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) o According to my references, the prefix "uni" is directly from Latin while the word "code" is through French. o 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* o This draws on contributions or comments from: + Dixon Au + Joe Becker + Maurice Bauhahn + Abel Cheung + Peter Constable + Michael Everson + Christopher John Fynn + Michael Kaplan + George Kiraz + Abdul Malik + Siva Nataraja + Roozbeh Pournader + Jonathan Rosenne + Jungshik Shin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Terms of Use . Last updated: MED - 04/20/2003 15:30:33.