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* The box is aimed at Unicode-related pages. Guidelines do [[Wikipedia:Navigation templates|recommended]] not to create a box with numerous entries, like with names of 165 Unicode-blocks.

=== Unicode terms used===

* A '''block''' in Unicode is a named, single continuous group of codepointscode points, e.g. [[Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block|Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block]] with range U+2600–26FF. Unicode has defined and named blocks.Each Itcharacter is wellin allowed to define overlapping or sub-blocks, like Unicode Chess Symbols (U+2654-265F) withing the Miscellaneous Symbolsone block. A block can include undefinednon/assigned code points, non/character codepoints etcetera.

* A '''script''' is related to ''speech'' (like the alphabet), '''symbols''' are related to their ''meaning'' (like chess-symbols). Symbols also include controls and Unicode-specials like [[Byte order mark|Byte order mark(BOM)]]. All defined Unicode characters are either in a script or a symbol.

* '''Charts''' are examples of glyphs, i.e. a rendered character (the "A" you read)