Dictionary

kyūjitai en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkju.d͡ʒiˈtaɪ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Transliteration from Japanese 旧(きゅう)字(じ)体(たい) (kyūjitai, literally “old character form”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
   • Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji 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. 2020, Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, number 12, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, →DOI, →ISSN:

Forms

Coordinates

shinjitai

Translations (15)

cmn 日本舊字體 /日本旧字体 (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · cmn 舊字體 /旧字体 (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · ja 旧字体 (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · es kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · hi क्यूजिताई (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · vi cựu tự thể (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · yue 舊字體 /旧字体 (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · ms kanji lama (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · fi kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · hi पुराने कांजि (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · pl kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · he קיוג׳יטאי (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · fr kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · ru кюдзита́й (traditional form of Japanese kanji) · ko 구자체 (traditional form of Japanese kanji)