CJK

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

CJK

   <character> In {internationalisation}, a collective term for
   Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

   The characters of these languages are all partly based on {Han
   characters} (i.e., "hanzi" or "{kanji}"), which 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)