kyūjitai

English

Alternative forms

• kyujitai

Etymology

TransliterationfromJapaneseCũ(きゅう)Tự(じ)Thể(たい)(kyūjitai,literally“oldcharacterform”).

Noun

kyūjitai(uncountable)

1. 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,→DOI,→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

traditional form of Japanese kanji

• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Cũ tự thể／Cũ tự thể(gau⁶zi⁶tai²)

  Mandarin:Cũ tự thể／Cũ tự thể(zh)(jiùzìtǐ),Nhật BảnCũ tự thể／Nhật BảnCũ tự thể(Rìběn jiùzìtǐ)

• Finnish:kyūjitai
• French:kyūjitai(fr)m
• Hebrew:קיוג׳יטאיmorf(kyujitáy)
• Japanese:Cũ tự thể(ja)(kyūjitai)
• Korean:구자체( cũ tự thể )(gujache)
• Malay:kanjilama
• Russian:кюдзита́й(ru)m(kjudzitáj)
• Spanish:kyūjitaim
• Ukrainian:please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese:cựu tự thể

Japanese

Romanization

kyūjitai

1. Rōmajitranscription ofきゅうじたい