kyūjitai
US/ˌkju.d͡ʒiˈtaɪ/
kyūjitai noun: the traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
Noun
kyūjitai (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...
kyūjitai meaning in Hindi, Malay and Vietnamese
kyūjitai in Hindi
- traditional form of Japanese kanji
- क्यूजिताई kyūjitāī, पुराने कांजि purāne kāñji
kyūjitai in Malay
- traditional form of Japanese kanji
- kanji lama
kyūjitai in Vietnamese
- traditional form of Japanese kanji
- cựu tự thể
Forms of kyūjitai
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Origin of kyūjitai
Transliteration from Japanese 旧(きゅう)字(じ)体(たい) (kyūjitai, literally “old character form”).
Questions about kyūjitai
- What does kyūjitai mean?
- Kyūjitai means the traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.
- What is kyūjitai in Hindi?
- Kyūjitai in Hindi is क्यूजिताई (kyūjitāī), पुराने कांजि (purāne kāñji). See Kyūjitai meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is kyūjitai?
- Kyūjitai is a noun.
- How do you pronounce kyūjitai?
- Kyūjitai is pronounced /ˌkju.d͡ʒiˈtaɪ/ (US).
Words near kyūjitai in the dictionary
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