Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
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title:
Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
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Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from right-to-left, vertically from top-to-bottom, and even vertically from bottom-to-top. Traditionally, writt
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Writing conventions of eastern Asian countries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts
date created:
2005-09-10T06:54:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T03:59:18Z
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