kyūjitai

English

Borrowed from Japanese 旧字体 (kyūjitai, literally “old character form”).

kyūjitai (uncountable)

The traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
Antonym: shinjitai
- 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:10.4000/jtei.2301, ISSN 2162-5603:
  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.

traditional form of Japanese kanji

Chinese:
Cantonese: 舊字體 (yue), 旧字体 (yue) (gau⁶ zi² tai²)
Mandarin: 舊字體／旧字体 (zh) (jiùzìtǐ), 日本舊字體／日本旧字体 (Rìběn jiùzìtǐ)
Finnish: kyūjitai
French: kyūjitai (fr) m
Hebrew: קיוג׳יטאי‎ m or f (kyujitáy)
Japanese: 旧字体 (ja) (kyūjitai)
Korean: 구자체 (gujache)
Malay: kanji lama
Russian: кюдзита́й (ru) m (kjudzitáj)
Spanish: kyūjitai m
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: cựu tự thể

kyūjitai