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What is UCS?

The Universal Coded Character Set (国際符号化文字集合) refers to ISO/IEC 10646 as well as the Unicode Standard. Among the standards, especially as pertains to kanji, the code number given to a character is known as its “codepoint”.

Relevant links

• ISO/IEC 10646 https://www.unicode.org/wg2/
• Japan’s JIS standard JIS X 0221 https://www.jisc.go.jp/
• The Unicode Standard https://www.unicode.org/main.html