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CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese and Japanese.
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The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background. In the process called Han unification the common (shared) characters were identified, and named "CJK Unified Ideographs". Unicode defines a total of 74,617 CJK Unified Ideographs.
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The terms ideographs or ideograms may be misleading, since the Chinese script is not strictly a picture writing system.
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Historically, Vietnam used Chinese ideographs too, so sometimes the abbreviation "CJKV" is used. This system was replaced by the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet in the 1920s. |