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{{stub}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (漢字ROMボード) is a type of expansion board used in 8-bit and 16-bit computers and printers, including many of [[NEC]]'s Home Computers. Due to the hardware limitations of these home computers, display of kanji characters needed extra components, usually in the form of two expansion boards, with the first containing the 2000 most common Kanji characters for general use, while the second contained more obscure kanji. These boards usually also contained extra characters, examples include [[the PC-9801-10]] which allowed 63 user-defined characters.

==List of Kanji ROM boards==
NEC's [[PC-8000]], [[PC-8800]] and the early [[PC-9800]] series all had official or third party kanji ROM boards made over the years.
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===PC-8000===
While no official kanji ROM board was released for the [[PC-8001]], [[I.C]] released a third party accessory called the [[JWP-8200]]{{fileref|IO_JP_1982-06.pdf|page=184}}, following it up with an upgraded version called the [[JWP-8200 E]]{{fileref|IO_JP_1982-09.pdf|page=179}}, which contained a Kanji ROM board for word processing and office work.

As for the [[PC-8001 mkII]], it recieved an offical kanji ROM board in the form of the [[PC-8001 mkII-01]]

===PC-8800===
Same with the [[PC-8001 mkII]], NEC released an offical kanji ROM board in the form of the [[PC-8801-01]], which was followed by a revised version called the [[PC-8801-01|PC-8801-01K]]

===PC-9800===
Many Kanji ROM boards were released for the PC-9800 series

{| class="prettytable"
!Model Number
!Type
!Notes
!Compatible Models

|-
|[[PC-9801-01]]	
|JIS level 1		
|2965 Kanji characters + 885 non-kanji
|PC-9801

|-
|[[PC-9801-10]]	
|JIS level 1		
|2965 Kanji characters + 885 non-kanji + 63 user-defined characters	
|PC-9801/E

|-
|[[PC-9801-12/K]]	
|JIS level 2		
|3384 characters
|PC-9801/E/F/M

|-
|[[PC-9801-18]]	
|Extra Kanji		
|338 characters from Shift JIS
|PC-9801/E/F/M

|-
|[[PC-9801-28]]	
|Extra Kanji		
|338 characters from Shift JIS
|PC-9801U/VM/VX...

|-
|[[PC-98XA-04]]	
|Extra Kanji		
|338 characters from Shift JIS
|PC-98XA model 1/2/3
|}
==References==
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