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JSA

 (nihon kikaku kyōkai). Japa-

nese Standards Association. e publisher of

the JIS standards.

JTRON

Java TRON. See TRON.

JUNET

Japan Unix Network. e original designa-

tion for the Internet in Japan. See also JP.

K

Kilobyte. 1,024 bytes.

Kai

 (ki) or  (kit). e Chinese script

typeface style.

Kana

 (kana). e term that collectively refers

to hiragana and katakana. See also hiragana

and katakana.

Kana-to-kanji conversion

 (kana kanji henkan). e pro-

cess of converting kana input into a mixture

of kana and kanji characters. e most com-

mon method of inputting Japanese text.

Kanji

 (kanji). e ideographs that the Japanese

borrowed from the Chinese. ese number in

the thousands. See also ideograph.

Kanji compound

 (kango). A Japanese word consisting of

two or more kanji.

Kanji ligature

 (kanji gōji). A character composed

of two or more kanji. Typical examples in-

clude 󰞄 ( heisei; the name of a Japa-

nese era) and 󰙷 ( kabushikigaisha;

meaning “incorporated”).

Kanji tablet

A large tablet containing thousands of indi-

vidual keys, one for each character. is al-

lows for direct kanji input.

Kanji-in

 (kanji in). e name usually given

to two-byte character escape sequences as

used in ISO-2022-JP encoding. A kanji-in

JIS X 6004-1986

e standard that describes the specicatios

for the New-JIS keyboard array. See New-JIS

array.

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