English
kyūjitai
Kyūjitai comes from Japanese 旧字体.
- Japanesemodern旧字体
- Englishearliest quotation 2020kyūjitai
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Japanesemodern旧字体
- Englishearliest quotation 2020kyūjitai
Earliest quotation: 2020, Stewart Arneil, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium: “Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete…”
Every English word from Japanese 旧字体
Today it means
noun The traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Japanese 旧字体 / kyūjitai