< 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 .
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf .
(2001-01-01)