Editing Abbreviation (section)

=== Chinese and Japanese kanji ===
East Asian languages whose writing systems use [[Chinese characters]] form abbreviations similarly by using key Chinese characters from a term or phrase. For example, in Japanese the term for the [[United Nations]], ''kokusai rengō'' (国際連合) is often abbreviated to ''kokuren'' (国連). (Such abbreviations are called [[:ja:略語|ryakugo]] (略語) in Japanese; see also [[Japanese abbreviated and contracted words]]). The syllabic abbreviation of [[kanji]] words is frequently used for universities: for instance, ''Tōdai'' (東大) for ''Tōkyō daigaku'' (東京大学, [[University of Tokyo]]) and is used similarly in Chinese: ''Běidà'' (北大) for ''Běijīng Dàxué'' (北京大学, [[Peking University]]). Korean universities often follow the same conventions, such as ''Hongdae'' (홍대) as short for ''Hongik Daehakgyo'', or [[Hongik University]]. The English phrase "[[:wikt:gung ho|Gung ho]]" originated as a Chinese abbreviation.