Editing Bidirectional text (section)

=== Chinese characters and other CJK scripts ===
[[Chinese characters]] can be written in either direction as well as vertically (top to bottom then right to left), especially in signs (such as plaques), but the orientation of the individual characters does not change. This can often be seen on tour buses in China, where the company name customarily runs from the front of the vehicle to its rear — that is, from right to left on the right side of the bus, and from left to right on the left side of the bus. English texts on the right side of the vehicle are also quite commonly written in reverse order. (See pictures of tour bus and post vehicle below.)

Likewise, other [[CJK characters|CJK]] scripts made up of the same square characters, such as the [[Japanese writing system]] and [[Korean writing system]], can also be written in any direction, although horizontally left-to-right, top-to-bottom and vertically top-to-bottom right-to-left are the two most common forms.
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Image:Yangzhou-tour-bus--right-side-3182.jpg|The right side (text runs from right to left, including the English text)
Image:Yangzhou-tour-bus--leftt-side-3184.jpg|The left side (text runs from left to right)
Image:Hainan Airlines - Boeing 737-86N.jpg| On the right side of this [[Hainan Airlines]] aircraft, the text runs from right to left ({{lang|zh|空航南海}}).
Image:Hainan Airlines.JPG|The left side of this Hainan Airlines aircraft, however, shows the text running from left to right ({{lang|zh|海南航空}}).
File:VM 5485 China Post Office car at Zhengzhou Train Station.jpg|A photo that shows text on both sides of a China Post vehicle. On the right door, {{Smallcaps|china post}} appears as {{Smallcaps|tsop anihc}}.
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