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Big5

Big-5 or Big5 (Chinese: 大五碼) is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.

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Alias(es)
Big-5, 大五碼
Classification
Extended ASCII,[a][b] variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding
Created by
Institute for Information Industry
Extends
ASCII[b]
Extensions
Windows-950, Big5-HKSCS, numerous others
Languages
Traditional Chinese, English Partial support: Simplified Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, some of IPA letters for phonetic usage.

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Encoding

History

Extensions

Kana and Cyrillic

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Big5

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples108
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Big5

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related to External links · 26
Big5 → Archived, Big5 Family, Big5e, CDP, ChinaSea, Chinese Information Code, Christian WitternCNS, Codeset Overview, Contains, Download, Dynalab, Education, Encodings, Firefox, Graphical View, HKSCS, ICU's Converter Explorer教育部標準字體 Download, Ideographic Research GroupMozilla, Info Downloadable HKSCS, Kong Supplementary Character Set
related to Kana and Cyrillic · 20
Big5 → Big5-2003, Cyrillic, ETEN, HKSCS, HTML5, IBM's, International Components, Mac OS, Private Use Area, Python's, Russian Cyrillic, The, The ETEN, There, These, They, TXT, Unicode, Unicode-At-On, Windows-950
related to What a Big5 code actually encodes · 15
Big5 → American-made, An, Apple Macintosh, ASCII, Back, CJK, DBCS-based, If, Nevertheless, Of, The, The Big5, There, This, What Big5
related to The Matching SBCS · 14
Big5 → ASCII, Chinese Language Kit, CJK DBCS, DBCS, DOS-based, However, In, Macintosh, MBCS, Nowadays, SBCS, The SBCS, Unix, Yet
related to history · 12
Big5 → As, ASCII, Chinese, CJK, Information Industry, Institute, IT, Japanese, Korean, Taiwan, Taiwan's, The
related to Duplicates · 6
Big5 → CJK Symbols, FA0C, FA0D, Punctuation, Some, Suzhou
related to Encoding · 4
Big5 → Kangxi, The, The ETen, To
related to A more detailed look at the organization · 3
Big5 → In, Suzhou, The
Alias(es) · 1
Big5 → Big-5, 大五碼
Classification · 1
Big5 → Extended ASCII,[a][b] variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding

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Important terminology

characters chinese code character hkscs used big-5 page extension extensions encoding eten use set unicode also bytes taiwan standard cjk

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Big5Alias(es)Big-5, 大五碼1.00infobox
Big5ClassificationExtended ASCII,[a][b] variable-width encoding, DBCS, CJK encoding1.00infobox
Big5Created byInstitute for Information Industry1.00infobox
Big5ExtendsASCII[b]1.00infobox
Big5ExtensionsWindows-950, Big5-HKSCS, numerous others1.00infobox
Big5LanguagesTraditional Chinese, English Partial support: Simplified Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, some of IPA letters for phonetic usage.1.00infobox
Big5MIME / IANABig51.00infobox
Big5Other related encodingCNS 116431.00infobox
Big5related to A more detailed look at the organizationIn0.60section
Big5related to A more detailed look at the organizationThe0.60section
Big5related to A more detailed look at the organizationSuzhou0.60section
Big5related to DuplicatesFA0C0.60section

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