# UTF-16

> format for transforming texts encoded with one or two 16-bit code units per character of the universal character set defined by the ISO/IEC 10646 standard and the Unicode Standard

**Wikidata**: [Q740701](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740701)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/utf-16


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013