Digimoji

Digimoji (デジ文字 Dejimoji, lit. "DigiLetters"; Dub: DigiCode) is a that is used in the Digital World.

Phrases in Digimoji are often seen inscribed on the bodies, armor, and weapons of certain species of Digimon. =Overview=

Rules
Digimoji consists of two separate sets of logographic glyphs: one for the syllabary that is used to write the Japanese language (applied identically to both hiragana and katakana), and one for the Latin alphabet that is used to write English and many other European languages. Every letter/symbol from both of these writing systems is represented in Digimoji. However, regular Arabic numerals are still used instead of having a special Digimoji equivalent.

Writing in Digimoji is a simple cipher that directly replaces each kana/Latin letter with the matching Digimoji glyph. All punctuation is excluded in both languages.

For Japanese, size differences in kana are completely ignored when writing in Digimoji. This means that all cases of "small kana" (e.g. the ' っ/ッ, ') are presented in Digimoji in the exact same size as regular kana.

Table
=List of Digimon with Digimoji inscriptions=

Goatmon's gorget reads — —
 * Goatmon

These lines are fragments of a quote from  which reads in full "When Light and Shadow are joined, set us in the eyes of the goat that faces the high sun." (光と影を結び時つぐる、高き日に向かいし山羊の眼に我を収めよ Hikari to kage wo musubi tokitsugeru, takaki nichi ni mukaishi yagi no manako ni ware wo osame yo)

Thus, on Goatmon they would read "Wh- / -ght and shadow are joined, / us in the eyes / that faces /"


 * Wisemon

=Appearances=

Digimoji is the official language of the Digital World. According to Gaomon, Digimoji is one of the 170+ languages in which he and Thoma H. Norstein are fluent. Agumon, on the other hand, is unable to to read it, and is amazed to see that Gaomon can. Gaomon is surprised that Agumon, despite being a Digimon, is illiterate in his own world's language.

Miscellaneous places where Digimoji can be seen include evolution stock footage, Digital Dives, DATS's computer screens, and Thoma's netbook computer.

The seal containing Lucemon displays N, S, E, and W (,, and  respectively) at the cardinal points, "DARKNESS"  clockwise along the outer circle, "SEAL"  to the left, right, top, and bottom of the "octagon" formed within the central circle, and a Digital Hazard symbol in the middle, depicted similar to the diagram (right). Each time when Kagura uses the Seven Great Demon Lords' Code Keys to unlock the seal, Digimoji newly appear in vertical segments highlighted in red, but these are just random letters (ex: "r", "t", "h", "e", "l").

Digimoji also appears during evolution, but it is merely random sequencing of letters; for example, ("dfslkfghh"). Lalamon's Special Move displays characters which include "sa", "ya", "su", "gi", "ra", "ri", "go", "ku", and "mu".

The Code Keys themselves also include Digimoji displayed in the format as depicted below:

All models of the D-Terminal contain a "Translate" function, in which the player may enter a phrase of their choice and the device will output its spelling in Digimoji/DigiCode.

In Digimon Database entries on the international model of the device, pressing the C Button again when viewing a Digimon's name switches it into displaying the name in DigiCode.

Each model also has a table of Digimoji, and their equivalent letters/kana, on a sticker inside the screen cover. The Japanese model's table only covers the kana Digimoji, while the international model's table only covers Latin alphabet DigiCode.



When attempting to evolve a Digimon in the Version 2 model of the D-Power Digivice, a cutscene plays where two instances of the word ("DIGIVOLVE") run across the screen (one forwards, one backwards).

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