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Variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one or two 16-bit code units
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding that supports all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length
UTF-16
ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode
UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation
UTF-8
Unicode character
- UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8
Byte_order_mark
Encoding scheme for Unicode
The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) is a variant of UTF-8 that is described in Unicode Technical Report #26. A Unicode code point
CESU-8
UTF-8 string because it only looks for the ASCII '%' character to define a formatting string. All other bytes are printed unchanged. UTF-16 and UTF-32
Comparison of Unicode encodings
Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings
Character encoding
However if a UTF-7 translator is to/from UTF-16 then it can (and probably does)[citation needed] encode each surrogate half as though it was a 16-bit code
UTF-7
Character encoding for Unicode compatible with EBCDIC
similar to UTF-8's advantages for existing ASCII-based systems. Details on UTF-EBCDIC are defined in Unicode Technical Report #16. To produce the UTF-EBCDIC
UTF-EBCDIC
Character encoding standard
Unicode Standard itself defines three encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, though several others exist. UTF-8 is the most widely used by a large margin,
Unicode
Encoding Unicode characters as 4 bytes per code point
UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format), sometimes called UCS-4, is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly
UTF-32
Overview on Unicode implementation in Microsoft Windows
explicitly to the UTF-16 encoding. Anything else, including UTF-8, is not "Unicode" in Microsoft's outdated language (while UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both Unicode
Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows
Using numbers to represent text characters
8859, and Unicode encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. The most popular character encoding on the World Wide Web is UTF-8, which is used in 98.9% of surveyed
Character_encoding
Standard set of characters defined by ISO/IEC 10646
conflicts with other encoding forms. The original edition of the UCS defined UTF-16, an extension of UCS-2, to represent code points outside the BMP. A range
Universal_Coded_Character_Set
Sets of characters used in the 1980s & 90s
Windows versions support Unicode, new Windows applications should use Unicode (UTF-8) and not 8-bit character encodings. There are two groups of system code
Windows_code_page
Purposely unassigned Unicode code points
Additionally, when UTF-16 codes are embedded in LMBCS, the UTF-16 codes corresponding to U+F601 through U+F6FF are substituted for UTF-16 codes which would
Private_Use_Areas
Handling of strings in the C programming language
Unicode literals such as char foo[512] = "φωωβαρ"; (UTF-8) or wchar_t foo[512] = L"φωωβαρ"; (UTF-16 or UTF-32, depends on wchar_t) is implementation defined
C_string_handling
Process of determining content's charset
pass a UTF-8 validity test. However, badly written charset detection routines do not run the reliable UTF-8 test first, and may decide that UTF-8 is some
Charset_detection
historically been used for storing text on the World Wide Web, though by now UTF-8 is dominant, with all languages at 95% use or higher by some estimates
Popularity_of_text_encodings
Text string used to uniquely identify a computer file
the filename, such as L"\x00C0.txt" (UTF-16, NFC) (Latin capital A with grave) and L"\x0041\x0300.txt" (UTF-16, NFD) (Latin capital A, grave combining)
Filename
Proprietary file system developed by Microsoft
sequence is valid UTF-16 (it allows any sequence of short values, not restricted to those in the Unicode standard). In Win32 namespace, any UTF-16 code units
NTFS
Continuous group of 65536 Unicode code points
of 17 planes is due to UTF-16, which can encode 220 code points (16 planes) as pairs of words, plus the BMP as a single word. UTF-8 was designed with a
Plane_(Unicode)
Basic word processor formerly included with Microsoft Windows
support, enabling WordPad to support multiple languages, but big endian UTF-16/UCS-2 is not supported. It can open Microsoft Word (versions 6.0–2003) files
WordPad
Computer file containing plain text
written. Most Microsoft Windows text files use ANSI, OEM, or Unicode (UTF-16 or UTF-8) encoding. What Microsoft Windows terminology calls "ANSI encodings"
Text_file
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up UTF in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. UTF may refer to: Unicode Transformation Format UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 UTF-EBCDIC U.T.F. (Undead
UTF
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 64 printable characters
system called modified Base64. This data encoding scheme is used to encode UTF-16 as ASCII characters for use in 7-bit transports such as SMTP. It is a variant
Base64
Markup language and file format
used. Encodings other than UTF-8 and UTF-16 are not necessarily recognized by every XML parser (and in some cases not even UTF-16, even though the standard
XML
Garbled text as a result of incorrect character encodings
encoding (as in Asian 16-bit encodings vs European 8-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-8 and UTF-16). Failed rendering
Mojibake
Use of encoding systems for international characters in HTML
languages. As of January 2026[update], UTF-8 is used by 98.9% of web sites surveyed by W3Techs. UTF-16 or UTF-32, other encodings of Unicode, are less
Character_encodings_in_HTML
Data-interchange format
to U+FFFF). However, if escaped, those characters must be written using UTF-16 surrogate pairs. For example, to include the Emoji character U+1F610 😐
JSON
only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16. Geany supports spell checking via
Comparison_of_text_editors
Higher-level 7-bit and 8-bit character encoding system
(most UTFs, one exception being the obsolete UTF-1) Representing all characters, including control codes, with multiple bytes (e.g. UTF-16, UTF-32) Mixing
ISO/IEC_2022
C programming language standard, current revision
all char16_t strings and literals shall be UTF-16 encoded, and all char32_t strings and literals shall be UTF-32 encoded, unless otherwise explicitly specified
C23_(C_standard_revision)
Complete list of the characters available on most computers
in UTF-8, since those bytes are invalid in UTF-8. It is also not likely to be UTF-16 in little-endian byte order because 0xFE, 0xFF read as a 16-bit
Universal Character Set characters
Universal_Character_Set_characters
for UTF-16 surrogates or code points beyond U+10FFFF). Computing – UTF-16/Unicode: There are 1,114,112 (220 + 216) distinct values encodable in UTF-16, and
Orders_of_magnitude_(numbers)
Simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows
encoded as: UCS-2 (Windows NT 3.5 to 2000) UTF-16 (Windows 2000 or later), both little- and big-endian UTF-8 (Windows 2000 or later) Before Windows 10
Windows_Notepad
Unicode block containing some special codepoints and two non-characters
signal its endianness: a program reading a text encoded in for example UTF-16 and encountering U+FFFE <noncharacter-FFFE> would then know that it should
Specials_(Unicode_block)
Sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
Simons, F., "Proto-Sinaitic – Progenitor of the Alphabet" Rosetta 9 (2011), 16–40 (here: 38–40) Archived 2022-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. See also: Goldwasser
Ayin
2011 edition of the C++ programming language standard
string literals with UTF-8, UTF-16, or any other kind of Unicode encodings. C++11 supports three Unicode encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. The definition
C++11
Scripting language created in 1994
Components for Unicode (ICU) library, and representing text strings as UTF-16 internally. Since this would cause major changes both to the internals of
PHP
"multiple data streams". Published specifications say that NWFS allows for 16 attributes and 10 data streams, and NSS allows for unlimited quantities of
Comparison_of_file_systems
Method of encoding characters in a URI
a non-standard encoding for Unicode characters: %uxxxx, where xxxx is a UTF-16 code unit represented as four hexadecimal digits. For example, the 13th
Percent-encoding
Communication protocol extension for the bar code reader to host interface
KS X 1001 \000031 GBK \000032 GB 18030 \000033 UTF-16 Little endian \000034 UTF-32 Big endian \000035 UTF-32 Little endian \000170 ISO/IEC 646 INV \000899
Extended Channel Interpretation
Extended_Channel_Interpretation
Software library for interpreting regular expressions
supported only ASCII code. Later, UTF-8 support was added. Support for UTF-16 was added in version 8.30, and support for UTF-32 in version 8.32. PCRE2 has
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expressions
Character encoding standard
numbers called code points) and encoding (to 8-, 16-, or 32-bit binary formats, called UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, respectively). ASCII was incorporated into
ASCII
Something that represents an idea, process, or physical entity
Unicode Standard itself defines three encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, though several others exist. UTF-8 is the most widely used by a large margin,
Symbol
Unicode Technical Standard
2 bytes per symbol through non-locking shifts. SCSU can also switch to UTF-16 internally to handle non-alphabetic languages. Reuters originally developed
Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode
Standard_Compression_Scheme_for_Unicode
Text messaging service component
the default GSM 7-bit alphabet, the 8-bit data alphabet, and the 16-bit UCS-2 or UTF-16 alphabets. Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured
SMS
Symbols encoded in computers to make text
systems (with only 16 possible values). The more modern ASCII system uses the 8-bit byte for each character. Today, the Unicode-based UTF-8 encoding uses
Character_(computing)
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 99 (2): 16–28. doi:10.1524/zaes.1973.99.2.16. S2CID 195039128. (subscription required) Media related to
Ankh
Software library
historically used UTF-16, and still does only for Java; while for C/C++ UTF-8 is supported, including the correct handling of "illegal UTF-8". ICU 73.2 has
International Components for Unicode
International_Components_for_Unicode
Relationship between Unicode characters and HTML
HTML document. For UTF-8, the BOM is optional, while it is a must for the UTF-16 and the UTF-32 encodings. (Note: UTF-16 and UTF-32 without the BOM are
Unicode_and_HTML
Unicode character block
byte-order mark is very useful in detecting endianness in UTF-16, because when it is at the start of UTF-16 data and the interpreter reads the first character
Arabic_Presentation_Forms-B
Letter "I" in Indic scripts
71042 U+11582 70407 U+11307 UTF-8 240 145 128 135 F0 91 80 87 240 145 150 130 F0 91 96 82 240 145 140 135 F0 91 8C 87 UTF-16 55300 56327 D804 DC07 55301
I_(Indic)
Letter "Da" in Indic scripts
70438 U+11326 UTF-8 240 145 128 164 F0 91 80 A4 240 144 168 161 F0 90 A8 A1 240 145 150 159 F0 91 96 9F 240 145 140 166 F0 91 8C A6 UTF-16 55300 56356 D804
Da_(Indic)
Playing card
OF SPADES Encodings decimal hex Unicode 127137 U+1F0A1 UTF-8 240 159 130 161 F0 9F 82 A1 UTF-16 55356 56481 D83C DCA1 Numeric character reference 🂡
Ace_of_spades
Numerical value representing a character in a coded character set
called a code unit. For the UTF-32 encoding, all code points are encoded as one four-byte (octet) binary number; for the UTF-16 encoding, different code
Code_point
Fruit emoji icon
Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017
Peach_emoji
Emoji featuring laughing crying face
Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017
Face_with_Tears_of_Joy_emoji
Emoji icon
Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017
Eggplant_emoji
Letter "Pa" in Indic scripts
70442 U+1132A UTF-8 240 145 128 167 F0 91 80 A7 240 144 168 164 F0 90 A8 A4 240 145 150 162 F0 91 96 A2 240 145 140 170 F0 91 8C AA UTF-16 55300 56359 D804
Pa_(Indic)
Fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
Alphabetic Script, or the Egyptian Origin of the Alphabet". Aegyptus. 82 (1/2): 16. ISSN 0001-9046. JSTOR 41217347. Archived from the original on 3 February
He_(letter)
Ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health
stood for 1/2, the pupil for 1/4, the eyebrow for 1/8, the outer corner for 1/16, the curling line for 1/32, and the cheek mark for 1/64. In 1923, T. Eric
Eye_of_Horus
Letter "Ṅa" in Indic scripts
71058 U+11592 70425 U+11319 UTF-8 240 145 128 151 F0 91 80 97 240 145 150 146 F0 91 96 92 240 145 140 153 F0 91 8C 99 UTF-16 55300 56343 D804 DC17 55301
Ṅa
Symbol "#!", used in computing
"FAQ UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8
Shebang_(Unix)
Thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
67660 U+1084C 67852 U+1090C UTF-8 240 144 142 142 F0 90 8E 8E 240 144 161 140 F0 90 A1 8C 240 144 164 140 F0 90 A4 8C UTF-16 55296 57230 D800 DF8E 55298
Mem
Archived from the original on 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2016-08-29. "Faq - Utf-8, Utf-16, Utf-32 & Bom". "How to : Load XML from File with Encoding Detection".
List_of_file_signatures
Human-readable data serialization language
some control characters, and may be encoded in any one of UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. (Though UTF-32 is not mandatory, it is required for a parser to have
YAML
Program that extracts subtitles from video
given for many Windows code pages as well Unicode encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16, with or without byte order mark (BOM). Therefore, there is no official
SubRip
Performance optimized backup software
API, such as Windows Explorer, do not support path names longer than 260 UTF-16 characters; later versions of Windows allow this to be changed via the registry
FastCopy
Emoji representing a human skull
Most-Used Emojis". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on December 16, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2025. Brown, Dalvin (September 17, 2019). "Happy
Skull_emoji
Data structure
as end of string instead, like 0xFE or 0xFF, which are not used in UTF-8. UTF-16 uses 2-byte integers and as either byte may be zero (and in fact every
Null-terminated_string
Foreign function interface for the Java language
functions, which use UTF-16LE encoding on little-endian architectures and UTF-16BE on big-endian architectures, and then use a UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion routine
Java_Native_Interface
Sequence of characters, data type
byte stream format UTF-8 is designed not to have the problems described above for older multibyte encodings. UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 require the programmer
String_(computer_science)
Letter "Ya" in Indic scripts
70447 U+1132F UTF-8 240 145 128 172 F0 91 80 AC 240 144 168 169 F0 90 A8 A9 240 145 150 167 F0 91 96 A7 240 145 140 175 F0 91 8C AF UTF-16 55300 56364 D804
Ya_(Indic)
Tarot card of the Major Arcana
CARD FOOL Encodings decimal hex Unicode 127200 U+1F0E0 UTF-8 240 159 131 160 F0 9F 83 A0 UTF-16 55356 56544 D83C DCE0 Numeric character reference 🃠
The_Fool_(tarot_card)
Journaling file system developed by Apple
disks as a result. File and folder names in HFS Plus are also encoded in UTF-16 and normalized to a form very nearly the same as Unicode Normalization Form
HFS_Plus
Computer character set for Latin scripts
largely replaced code page 850 with Windows-1252, later UCS-2 and UTF-16, and finally UTF-8. However, legacy applications, especially command-line programs
Code_page_850
Extracting/adding file and/or directory names into archive in either UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-16/UCS-2 encoding to support single file/directory name which contains
Comparison_of_file_archivers
Windows character set for Hebrew
Windows-1255, especially on the Internet; meaning UTF-8, the dominant encoding for web pages, or UTF-16. Windows-1255 is used by less than 0.1% of websites
Windows-1255
Windows character set for Latin alphabet
attempted to encourage programs to use it, it only provided the 16-bit code units of UCS-2/UTF-16, despite the existing support for other multibyte character
Windows-1252
Shell command for searching text files
supports some regular expression operators. However, findstr does not support UTF-16 whereas find does. findstr cannot search for null bytes commonly found in
Findstr
Special character sequences in the C programming language
UTF-8, and UTF-16 for wchar_t: // A single byte with the value 0xC0; not valid UTF-8 char s1[] = "\xC0"; // Two bytes with values 0xC3, 0x80; the UTF-8
Escape_sequences_in_C
Character in text processing
The Unicode Consortium. 2025-09-09. ISBN 978-1-936213-35-1. FAQ - UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM, ”What should I do with U+FEFF in the middle of a file?“
Word_joiner
Terminal emulator for Windows 10 and later
hold multiple instances in a single window ANSI VT sequence support UTF-8 and UTF-16 (including CJK ideograms and emojis) Hardware-accelerated text rendering
Windows_Terminal
Letter in Indic scripts
hex Unicode 69660 U+1101C 71063 U+11597 UTF-8 240 145 128 156 F0 91 80 9C 240 145 150 151 F0 91 96 97 UTF-16 55300 56348 D804 DC1C 55301 56727 D805 DD97
Ña
Letter "U" in Indic scripts
71044 U+11584 70409 U+11309 UTF-8 240 145 128 137 F0 91 80 89 240 145 150 132 F0 91 96 84 240 145 140 137 F0 91 8C 89 UTF-16 55300 56329 D804 DC09 55301
U_(Indic)
Archive file format
archive files larger than 9 GB. Support for Unicode file names stored in UTF-16 little endian format. 5.0 – supported by WinRAR 5.0 (released April 2013)
RAR_(file_format)
Server operating system
default character encoding, but also provides support for ASCII, UCS-2 and UTF-16. In IBM i, disk drives may be grouped into an auxiliary storage pool (ASP)
IBM_i
standards. Supported encodings include ISO-2022, EUC-CN, GBK, UCS-2, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, and the mixed one, two- and four-byte encoding as published in
PostScript_fonts
Letter "Ū" in Indic scripts
71045 U+11585 70410 U+1130A UTF-8 240 145 128 138 F0 91 80 8A 240 145 150 133 F0 91 96 85 240 145 140 138 F0 91 8C 8A UTF-16 55300 56330 D804 DC0A 55301
Ū_(Indic)
Playing card
OF SPADES Encodings decimal hex Unicode 127149 U+1F0AD UTF-8 240 159 130 173 F0 9F 82 AD UTF-16 55356 56493 D83C DCAD Numeric character reference 🂭
Queen_of_spades
Character encoding
languages) UCS-2 and UTF-16 encodings are identical. To encode characters outside of the BMP (unreachable in plain UCS-2), such as Emoji, UTF-16 uses surrogate
GSM_03.38
Script of the Polish language
Supplement and Latin Extended-A), and thus Unicode-based encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16 can be used. The Polish alphabet is completely included in the Basic
Polish_alphabet
Chinese character radical
"turtle" (龜部) is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 24 characters (out of 40
Radical_213
Letter "E" in Indic scripts
71050 U+1158A 70415 U+1130F UTF-8 240 145 128 143 F0 91 80 8F 240 145 150 138 F0 91 96 8A 240 145 140 143 F0 91 8C 8F UTF-16 55300 56335 D804 DC0F 55301
E_(Indic)
Letter "Na" in Indic scripts
70440 U+11328 UTF-8 240 145 128 166 F0 91 80 A6 240 144 168 163 F0 90 A8 A3 240 145 150 161 F0 91 96 A1 240 145 140 168 F0 91 8C A8 UTF-16 55300 56358 D804
Na_(Indic)
Letter "Bha" in Indic scripts
70445 U+1132D UTF-8 240 145 128 170 F0 91 80 AA 240 144 168 167 F0 90 A8 A7 240 145 150 165 F0 91 96 A5 240 145 140 173 F0 91 8C AD UTF-16 55300 56362 D804
Bha_(Indic)
Open-source word processor and text editor
read and write to different character encodings, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16). TextEdit automatically adjusts letter spacing in addition to word
TextEdit
Genus of flowering plants
HYACINTH Encodings decimal hex Unicode 129723 U+1FABB UTF-8 240 159 170 187 F0 9F AA BB UTF-16 55358 57019 D83E DEBB Numeric character reference 🪻
Hyacinth
Special character in text processing
v47.0. The Unicode Consortium. 2025-03-11. Freytag, Asmus. "FAQ - UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM". Unicode. Unicode Consortium. What should I do with U+FEFF
Non-breaking_space
Software for editing plain text documents
character encoding conventions, such as ASCII, ISO/IEC 2022, Shift JIS, UTF-8, or UTF-16. These conventions define many printable characters, but also non-printing
Text_editor
UTF 16
UTF 16
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
Female
German
Feminine form of German Udo, UTE means "child."Â
Boy/Male
Australian
Part
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Ulfr, ULF means "wolf."
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Finnish, German, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish
Wealth; Poem Child; Fortunate Maid of Battle; Prospers in Battle; Poem
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Wish; Desire; Kindness; Enjoyment
Boy/Male
Finnish, French, German
Little
Male
Hebrew
(עוּץ) Variant spelling of Hebrew Uwts, UTZ means "soft and sandy earth" or "to consult." Compare with another form of Utz.
Boy/Male
Australian, Norse
Father of Ulf
Boy/Male
Australian, Finnish
Wealth; Fortune
Male
German
 Pet form of German Ulrich, UTZ means "prosperity and power." Compare with another form of Utz.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Bounty; Enjoyment
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Bounty enjoyment
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Finnish, German, Swedish
Wealth; Fortune; Fortunate Maid of Battle; Prospers in Battle; Poem; Child; Form of Uta
Boy/Male
Anglo, Australian, British, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Wolf
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
Female
Egyptian
, the granddaughter of Peteharpocrates.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Friendliness; Courtesy; Delicate; Grace; Favour from Allah
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, Norse, Norwegian
Son of Ulf
UTF 16
UTF 16
Female
Spanish
Spanish form of Greek Zenais, possibly ZENAIDA means "of Zeus."
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Foster of Immeasurable
Boy/Male
Muslim
Bright, Hero, Truthfulness, Dominion, Crown
Boy/Male
Irish
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Light
Boy/Male
Russian
gift from God'.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Heart Soul
Girl/Female
Tamil
Shubiksha | à®·à¯à®ªà¯€à®•à¯à®·à®¾
Boy/Male
Hebrew Italian
Replaces.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Belonging to people
UTF 16
UTF 16
UTF 16
UTF 16
UTF 16
n.
A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
n.
A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.
n.
One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
a.
Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.
n.
A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
n.
One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.
n.
One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.
n.
A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
n.
A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
n.
The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.
n.
A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
n.
A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
v. i.
To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.
n.
A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.
n.
A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile.
a.
Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.
n.
A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.