CJK-LyX is a multibyte version of LyX, the text processing document processor, or simply a new and advanced kind of word processors. More specifically, CJK-LyX is the patched version of LyX for Chinese, Japanese and Korean language users. CJK-LyX is based on the earlier patch against lyx-1.0.3 by Masahiko Kawakami and critical contributions from Chideok Hwang, who is also the author of the Korean input method Ami.