Han unification is an effort by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the Han characters of the so-called CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. Han characters are a feature shared in common by written Chinese (hanzi),Japanese (kanji),Korean (hanja) and Vietnamese.
In computing,Chinese character encodings can be used to represent text written in the CJK languages—Chinese,Japanese,Korean—and (rarely) obsolete Vietnamese,all of which use Chinese characters. Several general-purpose character encodings accommodate Chinese characters,and some of them were developed specifically for Chinese.
GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard,described as Information Technology — Chinese coded character set and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China. GB18030 is the registered Internet name for the official character set of the People's Republic of China (PRC) superseding GB2312. As a Unicode Transformation Format,GB18030 supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. It is also compatible with legacy encodings including GB/T 2312,CP936,and GBK 1.0.
Mojikyō,also known by its full name Konjaku Mojikyō,is a character encoding scheme created to provide a complete index of characters used in the Chinese,Japanese,Korean,Vietnamese ChữNôm and other historical Chinese logographic writing systems. The MojikyōInstitute,which published the character set,also published computer software and TrueType fonts to accompany it. The MojikyōInstitute,chaired by Tadahisa Ishikawa (石川忠久),originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya stores.
Biangbiang noodles,alternatively known as youpo chemian in Chinese,are a type of Chinese noodle originating from Shaanxi cuisine. The noodles,touted as one of the "eight curiosities" of Shaanxi (陕西八大怪),are described as being like a belt,owing to their thickness and length.
A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard. The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings,even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system,or even only support the basic Latin alphabet. Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts",although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535,it is not possible for a single font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters. This article lists some widely used Unicode fonts that support a comparatively large number and broad range of Unicode characters.
The Chinese,Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background,collectively known as CJK characters. During the process called Han unification,the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Unicode 15.1,Unicode defines a total of 97,680 characters.
Ken Roger Lunde is an American specialist in information processing for East Asian languages.
Radical 213 meaning "turtle" is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.
Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform named Android.
Microsoft YaHei is a sans-serif gothic typeface created by Founder Electronics and Monotype Corporation under commission from Microsoft. Hinting for the font was undertaken by Monotype Imaging. The CJK ideographic characters were designed by the Founder Electronics foundry's senior designer,Li Qi (齐立).
Source Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt,released by Adobe in 2012. It is the first open-source font family from Adobe,distributed under the SIL Open Font License.
Source Code Pro is a monospaced sans serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe Systems. It is the second open-source font family from Adobe,distributed under the SIL Open Font License.
CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese,Japanese,Korean and Vietnamese characters. When contrasted with other blocks containing CJK Unified Ideographs,it is also referred to as the Unified Repertoire and Ordering (URO).
Noto is a font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts,which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of October 2016,Noto fonts cover all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version 6.1,although fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 75,000 CJK unified ideographs in version 6.0 are covered. In total,Noto fonts cover over 77,000 characters,which is around half of the 149,186 characters defined in Unicode 15.0.
Source Serif is a serif typeface created by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe Systems. It is the third open-source font family from Adobe,distributed under the SIL Open Font License.
Source Han Serif is a serif Song/Ming typeface created by Adobe and Google.
A duospaced font is a fixed-width font whose letters and characters occupy either of two integer multiples of a specified,fixed horizontal space. Traditionally,this means either a single or double character width,although the term has also been applied to fonts using fixed character widths with another simple ratio between them.
