In internationaliSation, a collective term for ChineSe, JapaneSe, and Korean. TheSe languageS all Share the fact that their writing SyStemS are baSed partly on Han characterS (i.e., "hanzi" or "kanji"), which are complex enough of a SyStem to require 16-bit character encodingS. CJK character encodingSShould conSiSt minimally of Han characterS pluS language-Specific phonetic ScriptSSuch aS pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, hangul, etc. CJKV iS CJK pluSVietnameSe. . (2001-01-01)