The line breaking rules in East Asian languages specify how to wrap East Asian Language text such as

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

, and

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

. Certain characters in those languages should not come at the end of a line, certain characters should not come at the start of a line, and some characters should never be split up across two lines. For example, periods and closing parentheses are not allowed to start a line. Many

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and

desktop publishing Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal ("desktop") computer. It was first used almost exclusively for print publications, but now it also assists in the creation of various forms of online c ...

software products have built-in features to control line breaking rules in those languages. In the Japanese language, especially, the categories of line breaking rules and processing methods are determined by the

Japanese Industrial Standard are the standards used for industrial activities in Japan, coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA). The JISC is composed of many nationwide committees and plays ...

JIS X 4051, and it is called .―. JIS X 4051:2004 Formatting Rules for Japanese Documents (). Japanese Standards Association. 2004.

Line breaking rules in Chinese text

Line breaking rules for Chinese language have been described in the reference of

Office Open XML Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version a ...

, Ecma standard. There are rules about certain characters that are not allowed to start or end a line, such as below.

Simplified Chinese

*Characters that are not allowed at the start of a line :} *Characters that are not allowed at the end of a line :

Traditional Chinese

*Characters that are not allowed at the start of a line :} *Characters that are not allowed at the end of a line : *Characters that are not allowed at the end of a line :

Korean standards related to line breaking rules

*KS X ISO/IEC 26300:2007,

OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. It was developed wi ...

standard in

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

, describes

hyphen The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. ''Son-in-law'' is an example of a hyphenated word. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (figure d ...

ation at the start or at the end of line in OpenDocument.―. KS X ISO/IEC 26300:2007 Information technology - Open Document Format for Office Applications:(OpenDocument) v1.0 (). Korean Agency for Technology and Standards. 2007. pp. 531-532. (This is a duplicate standard of ISO/IEC 26300:2006) *KS X 6001, standard for file specification of Korean

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Word processor (electronic device), Early word processors were stand-alone devices ded ...

intermediate document, describes rules for line breaking at the end of page.―. KS X 6001 File Specification for Korean Document Interchange (). Korean Agency for Technology and Standards. 2005. pp. 16.

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