Definition of "Unicode"

(international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.  examples

(computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.  examples

(computing, by extension, informal) Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.  examples