Once ATOK meant Automatic Transfer Of Kana-kanji. Now, it means Advanced Technology Of Kana-kanji Transfer. It is occasionally taken to stand for Awa-TOKushima, site of the headquarters of JustSystems, or ASCIITOKanji.
Reverse retrieval of phonetic input - both to kunyomi and onyomi.
Text templates for standard phrases, address labels and Japanese emoticons.
Real time auto-completion of text - both Japanese and English. (Example: type "fun" and you immediately get a list of words starting with "fun": function, fun, fund, funk...).
Character information, JIS and Unicode codes, pronunciations, related characters.
Japanese date formats.
Character palette for input of special symbols, accented Latin, Russian, etc.
Customizable input keys and keyboard shortcuts for the different functions.
As of March 2013, the latest version for Windows is ATOK 2013; for Macintosh, ATOK 2012; and for Linux, ATOK X3. ATOK is also available for iOS, Android and other smartphone platforms.
