kyūjitai
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]TransliterationfromJapaneseCũTựThể(kyūjitai,literally“oldcharacterform”).
Noun
[edit]kyūjitai(uncountable)
- The traditional form of Japanesekanjiused before 1947.
- Coordinate term:shinjitai
- 2020,Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, inJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative[1],number12,Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, ,→ISSN:
- Although thekyūjitaikanji were not banned, the obsoletekyūjitaikanji have become unreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.
Translations
[edit]traditional form of Japanese kanji
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]kyūjitai
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