Mojikyo

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Mojikyo (Japanese: 文字鏡) is a set of computer software and fonts for enhanced logogram word-processing. As of October 2002, it collected 126,560/142,228 characters (CD-ROM/WWW version). Among them, 101,936/128,573 characters belong to the extended CJK family [1]. Many of the characters are obsolete and not included in Unicode.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Composition 3 Collected writing systems 3.1 Living 3.2 Dead or obsolete 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Premise

The Mojikyo fonts were created as a method of providing a complete documentary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Characters. It was created in order to provide an easy method to compile large selections of Chinese Characters as well as Japanese and Korean Characters. This is in addition to a large selection as well of various ancient scripts.

[edit] Composition

Mojikyo fonts come in a series of zip files around 2-5 megabytes each and contain varying numbers of characters. Characters include the Modern Latin Alphabet, Russian Cyrillic as well as a variety of various markers most seen in the Arial font, in addition to various Ancient scripts. All of this comes with a Character map that allows the user to browse through his downloaded Mojikyo fonts, copying and pasting such fonts in lieu of not having the ability to easily type them on a keyboard.

[edit] Collected writing systems

[edit] Living

• Chinese — Hanzi
• Japanese — Kanji, Kana (including Hentaigana)
• Korean — Hanja
• Latin alphabet with diacritics
• Cyrillic alphabet with diacritics

[edit] Dead or obsolete

• Ancient Chinese
  • Oracle script: 3,354 characters
  • Seal script: 10,969 characters
• Taiwanese kana
• Vietnamese — Chữ Nôm
• Sanskrit — Siddham: 1,875 characters
• Tangut script: 6,000 characters
• Sui script: 145 characters

[edit] See also

• Han unification

[edit] External links

• Welcome To Mojikyo Institute!- big size downloadable Mojikyo program files