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Big-5 or Big5 () is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.

Key facts

Character encoding.name
Big5
Character encoding.mime
Big5
Character encoding.alias
Big-5, 大五碼
Character encoding.by
Institute for Information Industry
Character encoding.lang
Traditional Chinese, EnglishPartial support:Simplified Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, some of IPA letters for phonetic usage.
Character encoding.extends
ASCII
Character encoding.extensions
Windows-950, Big5-HKSCS, numerous others
Character encoding.classification
Extended ASCII, variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding
Character encoding.otherrelated
CNS 11643

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Wikidata facts

Country of origin
Taiwan
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native label
大五碼
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