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== Unicode tables ==

Many articles dealing with Unicode include tables of Unicode characters. The standard form for such tables is as given in the following example:.

=== Example table ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Unicode Table Example

{{Unicode table header|Example caption}}

! [[Character (computing)|Char]]

! Image

! Name

! [[Hexadecimal|Hex]]

! [[Decimal]]

|-

| {{Unicode|☷}}

|

| [[Ba gua (concept)|Trigram]] for Earth

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| 9783

|-

| {{Unicode|☸}}

|

| [[Dharmacakra|Wheel of Dharma]]

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| 9784

|-

| {{Unicode|☹}}

|

| White frowning face ([[Emoticon]])

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| 9785

|-

| {{Unicode|☺}}

|

| White smiling face ([[Emoticon]])

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=== Legend ===

:''A copy of this legend, or something like it, will be linked from or displayed with all Unicode tables, once we figure out exactly how that should be done.''

{| class="wikitable"

! Char

| The literal character. If your computer lacks [[Help:Special characters|Unicode support]], you may see [[mojibake|other symbols]] instead of the proper character. You can copy-and-paste the character from here.

|-

! Image

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|-

! Hex

| The numeric [[code point]] for the character, in [[hexadecimal]] (base 16)., with The[[Unicode#Architecture and terminology|"U+" prefix denotes a Unicode code point in hex]].

|-

! Decimal

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* [[List of Unicode characters]]

* [[Unicode symbols]]

* [[OCR-A font]]

* [[Wikipedia:MOSNUM#Common_mathematical_symbols]]

* [[Linear_B#Unicode]] (note the link to the Unicode standard)