CJK

character In internationalisation, a collective term for

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

These languages all share the fact that their writing systems

are based partly on Han characters (i.e., "hanzi" or

"kanji"), which are complex enough of a system to require

16-bit character encodings. CJK character encodings should

consist minimally of Han characters plus language-specific

phonetic scripts such as pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, hangul,

etc.

CJKV is CJK plus Vietnamese.

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(2001-01-01)