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CJK Fonts: Reference Charts
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Common Character Sets
Country |
Vendor |
OS |
Vendor
Character Set |
Supported Std. Character Sets |
No. Chars2 |
Japan |
Microsoft |
Windows 95 |
Code Page 932 (Windows 95) |
JIS X 0208-1990 |
7,500 |
Windows 981 & up |
Code Page 932 (Windows 98) |
JIS X 0208-1990, JIS X 212-1990 |
15,000 |
Apple |
MacOS 7.1 & up |
Mac Japanese |
JIS X 0208-1990 |
7,400 |
MacOS X |
Japanese for OS X |
JIS X 0212-1990, JIS X 0213-2000 |
17,000 |
IBM |
OS/2 |
Code Page 941 |
Equiv. to MS Code Page 932 (Win95) |
7,300 |
Korea |
Microsoft |
Windows 951 |
Code Page 949 (Windows 95) |
KS X 1001:1992 (=KS C 5601-1992) |
17,100 |
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Windows 981 & up |
Code Page 949 (Windows 98) |
KS X 1001:1992 (=KS C 5601-1992) |
20,600 |
Apple |
MacOS 7.1 & up |
Mac Korean |
KS C 5601-1987 |
9,500 |
IBM |
OS/2 |
Code Page 1362 |
Equiv. to MS Code Page 949 (Win95) |
17,000 |
PRC &
Singapore |
Microsoft |
Windows 951 |
Code Page 936 (Windows 95) |
GBK |
21,900 |
Windows 981 & up |
Code Page 936 (Windows 98) |
GBK |
22,000 |
Apple |
MacOS 7.1 & up |
Mac Simplified Chinese |
GB 2312-80 |
7,600 |
IBM |
OS/2 |
Code Page 1385 |
Equiv. to MS Code Page 936 (Win95) |
21,900 |
Taiwan &
Hong Kong |
Microsoft |
Windows 951 |
Code Page 950 (Windows 95) |
Big 5 |
13,600 |
Windows 981 & up |
Code Page 950 (Windows 98) |
Big 5 |
18,300 |
Apple |
MacOS 7.1 & up |
Mac Traditional Chinese |
Big 5 |
13,600 |
IBM |
OS/2 |
Code Page 947 |
Equiv. to MS Code Page 950 (Win95) |
14,100 |
1Note on character sets & encoding: fonts supporting the listed MS character sets are often seen in two different encodings: one based on Unicode, the other based on a locale-specific standard. For instance, the characters in Japanese fonts for Windows 95 (CP932) can be in Unicode order, or alternatively in Shift-JIS (JIS X 208) order.
2Number of characters rounded to the nearest 100.
CJK Scripts
Writing System |
Locations Used |
Scripts Used |
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Japanese |
Japan |
Hiragana |
 |
Katakana |
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Kanji |
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Romaji |
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Korean |
Korea |
Hangul |
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Hanja |
 |
Simplified Chinese |
People’s Republic
of China, Singapore |
Hanzi |
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Traditional Chinese |
Taiwan
Hong Kong |
Hanzi |
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Note: Specific scripts are highlighted where necessary.
Basic Font Styles
Writing System |
Similar to Serif |
Similar to Sans Serif |
Chinese
(Simplified & Traditional) |
Sung |
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Hei |
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Japanese |
Mincho |
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Gothic |
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Korean |
Myeongjo |
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Gothic |
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