Mojikyo (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. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Computer program. ... “Font” redirects here. ... Egyptian hieroglyphs, which have their origins as logograms. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which comprise the main East Asian languages. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ...

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.

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. This article is about a unit of data measurement. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Arial. ...

Collected writing systems

Living

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

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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

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See also

• Han unification

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External links

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

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