Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set
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The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (香港增補字符集; commonly abbreviated to HKSCS) is a set of Chinese characters – 4,702 in total in the initial release—used in Cantonese, as well as when writing the names of some places in Hong Kong (whether in written Cantonese or standard written Chinese sentences).[1]
MIME / IANA | Big5-HKSCS |
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Alias(es) | big5hk, csBig5HKSCS |
Language(s) | Traditional Chinese, Cantonese |
Classification | 8-bit CJK DBCS |
Extends | Big5 ETen |
It evolved from the preceding Government Chinese Character Set (政府通用字庫) or GCCS. GCCS is a set of supplementary Chinese characters coded in the user-defined areas of the Big5 character set. It was originally used within the Hong Kong Government and later used by the public. It later evolved into Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set when the characters in the set were submitted to ISO-10646 for coding.