CJK

This article describes the term for fonts that use Chinese characters. For the abbreviation for a disease with the same spelling, see Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease .

CJK (abbreviation for Chinese , Japanese and Korean script; English Chinese-Japanese-Korean ) is a term that is mainly used in electronic data processing in relation to the scripts that use the Chinese characters ( Chinese  漢字  /  汉字 , Pinyin Hànzì ) are using or have used kanji in Japan and hanja in North and South Korea .

The form CJKV can also be found, which  includes Vietnamese in addition to the three scripts for CJK and takes into account the fact that Chinese characters ( Hán tự ) or a writing system derived from it called Chữ nôm was also used there.

CJK is often used in connection with localization or internationalization, e.g. a. in the Unicode standard ( Unicode block Unified CJK ideograms ), which depicts the CJK characters in a unified manner (see Han unification ) .

literature

• Lunde Ken: CJKV Information Processing . O'Reilly & Associates, Beijing / Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 1-56592-224-7 .