Text Encoding Initiative

<char>

char (character) provides descriptive information about a character which is not otherwise available in the document character set.
Declaration 

element char
{
   tei.global.attributes,
   attribute ucs { datatype.ucs }?,
   ( charName, gloss?, charProp*, desc?, mapping*, figure*, note? )
}
Attributes
(In addition to global attributes)
ucs specifies the Unicode codepoint corresponding with this character.
Datatype: datatype.ucs
Values: any valid Unicode codepoint.
Example 
 <char id="U4EBA-circled" ucs="U+4EBA">
  <charName>CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH 4EBA</charName>
  <charProp>
   <unicodeName>character-decomposition-mapping</unicodeName>
   <value>circle</value>
  </charProp>
  <charProp>
   <localName>daikanwa</localName>
   <value>36</value>
  </charProp>
  <mapping type="standard">
   <c ref="U4EBA">人</c>
  </mapping>
 </char>
Module [wsd-ng]

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