JIS X 0213 is a

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 ...

defining coded character sets for encoding the characters used in Japan. This standard extends

JIS X 0208 JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. The official title of the current ...

. The first version was published in 2000 and revised in 2004 (JIS2004) and 2012. As well as adding a number of special characters, characters with diacritic marks, etc., it included an additional 3,625 kanji. The full name of the standard is . JIS X 0213 has two "planes" (94×94 character tables). Plane 1 is a superset of JIS X 0208 containing kanji sets level 1 to 3 and non-kanji characters such as

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(including letters used to write the

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), Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, digits, symbols and so on. Plane 2 contains only level 4 kanji set. Total number of the defined characters is 11,233. Each character is capable of being encoded in two bytes. This standard largely replaced the rarely used

JIS X 0212 JIS X 0212 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining a coded character set for encoding supplementary characters for use in Japanese. This standard is intended to supplement JIS X 0208 (Code page 952). It is numbered 953 or 5049 as an IBM code p ...

-1990 "supplementary" standard, which included 5,801 kanji and 266 non-kanji. Of the additional 3,695 kanji in JIS X 0213, all but 952 were already in

. JIS X 0213 defines several 7-bit and 8-bit encodings including

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, ISO-2022-JP-2004 and

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. Also, it defines the mapping from each of these encodings to

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(

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) for each character. Unicode version 3.2 incorporated all characters of JIS X 0213 except for the characters that could be represented using

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s. Because about 300 kanji are in Unicode Plane 2, Unicode implementations supporting only the

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cannot handle all of the JIS X 0213 characters. This is not an issue for most applications, however. JIS X 0213 2000-2004

The 2004 edition of JIS X 0213 changed the recommended renderings of 168 kanji. Ten additional kanji were added in JIS X 0213:2004.

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JIS X 0213 Plane 1 code table

JIS X 0213 Plane 2 code table

{{character encoding Encodings of Japanese JIS standards Computer-related introductions in 2000

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