An ordered sequence of one or more abstract characters. (See definition D8 in Section Section 3.4, Characters and Encoding.) Abugida

Denoting letters or numbers by the first letter of their name. For example, the Greek acrophonic numerals are variant forms of such initial letters. Aksara

A character that is not decomposable. (See decomposable character

Acronym for Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode. A Unicode compression scheme that is MIME-compatible (directly usable for e-mail) and preserves binary order, which is useful for databases and sort [..]

Case. (1) Feature of certain alphabets where the letters have two distinct forms. These variants, which may differ markedly in shape and size, are called the uppercase

A character C is defined to be case-ignorable if C has the value MidLetter (ML), MidNumLet (MB), or Single_Quote (SQ) for the Word_Break property or its General_Category is one of Nonspacing_Mark (Mn) [..]

A unique string used to identify each abstract character encoded in the standard. (See definition D4 in Section 3.3, Semantics.) Character Name Alias

A sequence of one or more leading consonants in Korean. Chu Hán. The name for Han characters used in Vietnam; derived from hànzì

(See Unicode C

(See encoded character