CJK & East Asian Characters

Entities CJK & East Asian Character

CJK characters include writing systems used for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text. Unicode provides extensive character ranges for Han ideographs, Japanese Hiragana and Katakana, Korean Hangul, and other East Asian characters used in modern HTML documents.

Most CJK and East Asian characters do not have named HTML character references. They can be entered directly into a UTF-8 HTML document or represented using decimal or hexadecimal numeric character references.

CJK Unified Ideographs

CJK Unified Ideographs are Unicode characters used to represent Han characters found primarily in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing. The Unicode range contains thousands of ideographs; the following table shows representative examples.

Japanese Hiragana

Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic script used for native words, grammatical endings, and other parts of written Japanese. The following table shows representative Hiragana characters.

Japanese Katakana

Katakana is another Japanese phonetic script. It is commonly used for foreign words, names, technical terms, and emphasis.

Korean Hangul

Hangul is the alphabet used for writing Korean. Unicode includes individual Hangul letters as well as precomposed syllable blocks. The following table shows representative Hangul characters and syllables.

Using CJK & East Asian Characters in HTML

UTF-8 allows Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters to be entered directly into HTML. Numeric character references can also represent the same Unicode characters. The lang attribute should identify the language of text when it differs from the language of the surrounding document.

<p lang="zh">&#20013;&#25991;</p>
<p lang="ja">&#12371;&#12435;&#12395;&#12385;&#12399;</p>
<p lang="ko">&#50504;&#45397;</p>