Mojikyō
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mojikyo, Mojikyou, Konjaku Mojikyō, Konjaku Mojikyo, Konjaku Mojikyou, Past and Present Character Mirror
(), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme created to provide a complete index of characters used in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese Chữ Nôm and other historical Chinese logographic writing systems. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType computer fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya stores.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Premise
- Composition
- Encoding
- Blocks
- No unification
- License
- Collected writing systems
- Living
- Dead or obsolete
- See also
- References
- Notes
- External links
(), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme created to provide a complete index of characters used in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese Chữ Nôm and other historical Chinese logographic writing systems. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType computer fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya stores.
Conceptualized in 1996, the first version of the CD-ROM was released in July 1997. For a time, the Mojikyō Institute also offered a web subscription, termed " WEB" (), which had more up-to-date characters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mojikyō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.