CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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FTP

File Transfer Protocol. A common way to

move les between host computers, and

sometimes between a host computer and a

personal computer.

Full-width

 (quánjio) or 全形 (quánxíng) in Chi-

nese,  (zenkaku) in Japanese, and /

󰃷 (jeongak) in Korean. A character whose

shape occupies a space roughly that of a

square. Most CJKV characters are considered

to be full-width. See also half-width.

Furigana

 (furigana). See ruby.

G

 (gojira). Godzilla. e King. e King

of the Monsters. A life form rst encountered

in 1954 in Japan, and subsequently went

through nuclear meltdown in late 1995. Sur-

vived by Junior Godzilla. A leaner (and mean-

er) version of Godzilla appeared in 1998. G

sometimes refers to Gamera ( gamera),

a giant turtle-like creature. Abbreviation for

Glock (the G33, chambered in the potent .357

Sig, happens to be my favorite). Also, an old

unit of typographic measurement used strict-

ly for type size, written /號數 (hàoshù)

in Chinese,  (gōsū) in Japanese, and 

/󰖛 (hosu) in Korean. Unlike other typo-

graphic units of measurement, the scale is not

absolute but relative, and the larger the value

of G, the smaller the relative size. ough

similar, the systems used in Japan and China

dier in subtle ways. In Japan, for example,

0G (the largest size) is equivalent to 42 points,

and 8G is equivalent to 4 points.

G11N

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