This is a list of attribute values used for the Customer Data Parser and Postal Matcher for China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Note that attribute values are not the same for all countries. The countries that use a particular attribute are indicated in the Country column.
Attribute Value | Country | Description |
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ALLEY-NUM-IND
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that this string is used to separate alley names. Example: Taiwan `弄' ATT=ALLEY-NUM-IND |
APARTMENT
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the characters before this string are an apartment building. Can include Villa, A, APT, etc. Example: ‘APT’ ATT=APARTMENT |
AREA
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that the characters before this string are an area name. Example: China `经济开发区' ATT=AREA Taiwan ‘工業園區’ ATT=AREA |
AREA-NAME
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that this string is a specific name for an area. Example: China `亚运村' ATT=AREA-NAME Taiwan ‘新竹科學工業園區’ ATT=AREA-NAME |
AREA-NUM-IND
|
Taiwan |
Indicates that this string is preceded by number of area. Example: '鄰' ATT=AREA-NUM-IND |
BAN-IND
|
Japan |
Indicates that the data before this string is a Banchi number. Example: `番地' ATT=BAN-IND |
BLOCK-NUM-IND
|
Korea |
Indicates that the number before this string is a block number. Example: `번지' ATT=BLOCK-NUM-IND |
BUILDING
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the data in front is the name of a building. Example: China ‘写字楼’ ATT=BUILDING Japan '会館' ATT=BUILDING Korea ‘건물’ ATT=BUILDING Taiwan ‘大樓’ ATT=BUILDING |
BUILDING-NAME
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that this specific string is a building name. Example: China ‘国贸大厦’ ATT=BUILDING-NAME Japan '霞が関ビル' ATT=BUILDING Korea ‘글라스타워’ ATT=BUILDING-NAME Taiwan ‘新光大樓’ ATT=BUILDING-NAME |
BUILDING-NUM- IND
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Data in front of this string is a building number or division. Example: China `栋' ATT=BUILDING-NUM-IND Japan `号館' ATT=BUILDING-NUM-IND Korea `관' ATT=BUILDING-NUM-IND Taiwan ‘棟’ ATT=BUILDING-NUM-IND |
BUSINESS- BRANCH
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the data in front is part of a business branch designation. Example: Korea ‘ 사무소 ’ ATT=BUSINESS-BRANCH Japan ‘ 支社' ATT=BUSINESS-BRANCH China/Taiwan ’ 分公司' ATT=BUSINESS-BRANCH |
BUSINESS-CLUE
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Clue words found in a business name that indicate that the field entry is a business name and not a personal name. Example: China ‘公司’ ATT=BUSINESS-CLUE Japan ‘会社’ ATT=BUSINESS-CLUE |
BUSINESS-DEPT
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the data in front is part of a business department, division, or team. Example: China/Japan ‘部 ’ ATT=BUSINESS-DEPT Korea ‘본부’ ATT=BUSINESS-DEPT Taiwan ‘局’ ATT=BUSINESS-DEPT |
BUSINESS-DEPT-ENDING
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Ending that indicates token is a department. Example: China/Japan ‘部’ ATT=BUSINESS-DEPT-ENDING |
BUSINESS-KEYWORD
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Clue words found in a business name that indicate that the field entry is a business name and not a personal name. Example: ‘기계’ ATT=BUSINESS-KEYWORD |
BUSINESS-LOCATE-LEFT
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that a business type (Incorporated, Limited, etc.) is located to the left of the business name. Example: IBM' ATT=BUSINESS-NAME, ATT=BUSINESS-LOCATE_LEFT |
BUSINESS-NAME
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
String indicating the name of a specific business entity. Example: China ‘北大方正' ATT=BUSINESS-NAME Japan ‘ソニー’ ATT=BUSINESS-NAME Korea ‘Samsung’ ATT=BUSINESS-NAME |
BUSINESS-SCHOOL-NAME
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Entire name of school, collage, or university. Example: China '北京电子科技学院' ATT=BUSINESS-SCHOOL-NAME |
BUSINESS-SCHOOL-TYPE
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Ending that indicates a school, collage, or university. Example: China '校' ATT=BUSINESS-SCHOOL-TYPE |
BUSINESS-TYPE
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
String to distinguish a specific string as a business type (Incorporated, Limited, etc.) from the general business name data. Example: China `集团' ATT=BUSINESS-TYPE Japan `株式会社' ATT=BUSINESS-TYPE Korea `주식회사' ATT=BUSINESS-TYPE Taiwan `公司' ATT=BUSINESS-TYPE |
CHOME-IND
|
Japan |
Indicates that the data before this string is a Chome number. Example: `丁目' ATT=CHOME-IND |
COUNTRY
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Name of the country. Example: China `中国' ATT=COUNTRY |
END-NUMBER
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the token must end with a number. Example: Korea `아퍼트' ATT=END-NUMBER |
ENTRANCE-NUM-IND |
China |
Indicates that the string in front is a separate entrance number within a single geographic address. Example: China `单元' ATT=ENTRANCE-NUM-IND |
FLOOR-NUM-IND
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the numeral in front of this character is a building floor number. Example: China `楼' ATT=FLOOR-NUM-IND Japan `階' ATT=FLOOR-NUM-IND Korea `층' ATT=FLOOR-NUM-IND |
GEOG
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the string is a general geographic data string. Example: Korea ‘빌딩’ ATT=BUILDING ATT=GEOG China/Taiwan ‘宿舍’ ATT=BUILDING ATT=GEOG |
GEOG-IGNORE
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that this geographic element should be ignored and stored in one of the pr_unknown_token_n (n=1-4) fields. |
GU-IND
|
Japan |
Indicates that the data before this string is a Go (Gu) number.
|
HONORIFIC
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Any honorific, such as ‘Mr.’ or ‘Miss’, etc. Example: Korea `선생님' ATT=HONORIFIC China/Japan/Taiwan `先生' ATT=HONORIFIC |
HOUSE-NUM-IND
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the number before this string is a house number. Example: China `号' END ATT=HOUSE-NUM-IND Korea `호' END ATT=HOUSE-NUM-IND |
LANE-NUM-IND
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that this string is used to separate lane indicators. Example: China `巷' ATT=LANE-NUM-IND |
LEVELx-END (x = 1 to 4)
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
If there is no ending in the input data for the specified level, add an ending and perform a lookup. If there is an ending and the lookup value does not match, swap it with a different ending for the level and perform a lookup. Example: China ‘省’ END-WORD ATT=LEVEL4-END Korea ‘빌라’ END-WORD ATT=LEVEL4-END |
LEVELx-WRONG (x=1 to 4)
|
Korea |
Indicates that a geographic level data can never be a certain level. For example, any data with a ‘town’ or ‘district’ as its ending should not be parsed as a Level 2 value. Example: '동 ’ ATT=LEVEL2-WRONG |
LEVEL3
|
Korea |
Assigns a specific string as Level 3 geography, when it is not in the Global Address Verification (GAV) table. Example: ‘불로동’ ATT=LEVEL3 |
LEVEL4
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Assigns a specific string as Level 4 geography, when it is not in the Global Address Verification (GAV) table. Example: China ‘宣武门’ ATT=LEVEL4 Korea ‘장곳리’ ATT=LEVEL4 Taiwan ‘港墘村’ ATT=LEVEL4 |
LEVEL4-TYPE
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the data in front of this string is a Level 4 geography. Example: China ‘小区' ATT=LEVEL4-TYPE Korea ‘영화관’ ATT=LEVEL4-TYPE Taiwan ‘巷 ’ ATT=LEVEL4-TYPE |
NEIGHBORHOOD | China |
Indicates that this string is a specific type for a small area and the string is parsed into the pr_neighborhood attribute. Example: China '住宅区' ATT=NEIGHBORHOOD |
NO-ASCII
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Forces the Postal Matcher to check geographic data containing ASCII characters for other ASCII characters. In the following example, using this attribute will allow the Postal Matcher to avoid parsing words such as "Florence" or "Fluoride" as containing the floor number indicator "Fl".
Example: ‘Fl’ ATT=FLOOR-NUM-IND ATT=GEOG ATT=NO-ASCII |
NUM-SEPARATOR-IND
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicator for items such as hyphen, slash, etc.
Example: ‘ - ’ ATT=NUM-SEPARATOR-IND |
POBOX
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Indicates that the numeral in front of this is a PO-Box number. Example: Korea ‘호’ ATT=POBOX China/Taiwan ‘信箱’ ATT=POBOX |
POST-BUILDING
|
Japan |
Indicates that this string is a specific post office name. Example: ` 東京中央郵便局' ATT=POST-BUILDING |
POSTAL-CODE
|
China Korea Taiwan |
Mask for a postal code. Enter all valid masks for postal codes in the data. Example: ‘nnnnnn’ ATT=POSTAL-CODE If the data contains . . . . . 345612, then it would try to use "345612" as a postal code, and see if it is valid for the combination of Level 1 . . . Level 4 in the address data. |
REMOVE-SPACE
|
Korea |
Remove space character(s) in front of a specific string. For example, some addresses will have the text for apartment as the English "APT", separated by a space from the name of the apartment. In order to recode these to the Korean form, you need to remove the space character(s) to achieve consistency. Example: ` APT' END-WORD ATT=APARTMENT ATT=REMOVE-SPACE REC=`아파트' |
ROOM-TYPE
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that this string is a specific type for a room. Example: China `办公室' ATT=ROOM-TYPE Taiwan ‘辦公室’ ATT=ROOM-TYPE |
SECTION-NUM-IND
|
China Taiwan |
Indicates that the data before this string is a section number. Example: Taiwan ‘段’ ATT=SECTION-NUM-IND |
STR-TYPE |
China |
Indicates that this string is a specific type for a street or road and the string is parsed into the pr_road attribute instead of pr_level4. Example: China '路' ATT=STR-TYPE |
SUB-HOUSE-NUM-IND
|
Taiwan |
Indicates that the number before this string is a sub house number. Example: Taiwan ‘之’ ATT=SUB-HOUSE-NUM-IND |
SUITE-NUM
|
China Taiwan |
The value after the SUITE word. |
SUITE-NUM-IND
|
China Japan Taiwan |
Indicates that the data in front of this string is a suite number. Example: China `房间' ATT=SUITE-NUM-IND Taiwan `室' ATT=SUITE-NUM-IND |
SURNAME
|
China Korea Taiwan |
All valid surnames (family name and last name) that the Parser can look up. Example: Korea `김' ATT=SURNAME China/Taiwan `黄' ATT=SURNAME |
TOKEN-MASK
|
China Japan Korea Taiwan |
Used to recode a token mask. See Token Masks for China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Example: 'LXH' ATT=TOKEN-MASK REC='LFH' |