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The table between shinjitai (新字体) and kyūjitai (舊字體).

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Shinjitai (新字体) table

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This repository contains two JSON files to map shinjitai (新字体) characters to kyūjitai (舊字體) characters, and vice versa. The data source is from the Jōyō Kanji Table (常用漢字表) from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) of Japan.

kyujitai.json: Kyūjitai to shinjitai table

The kyujitai.json file contains a large table as an JSON object. The keys are kyūjitai characters (e.g., "體") and each value is its corresponding shinjitai character (e.g., "体") or null if it's the same form to the kyūjitai one (e.g., "字": null).

Note that, since some shinjitai characters merged multiple kyūjitai characters into a single character, there are duplicated shinjitai values across different kyūjitai keys.

The kyūjitai keys of this table only consist of characters in the Jōyō Kanji Table.

shinjitai.json: Shinjitai to kyūjitai table

The shinjitai.json file contains a large table as an JSON object. The keys are shinjitai characters (e.g., "弁") and each value is an array of its corresponding kyūjitai characters (e.g., ["辨", "瓣", "辯"]) or null if it's the same form to the shinjitai one (e.g., "字": null). Every value must not be an empty array or contain the same character form to the shinjitai key.