Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

CJK
     
         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 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)