Where does “拡張新字体” come from?

拡張新字体 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 新字体, from Japanese 字体, from Japanese 字, from Middle Chinese 字 — letter, symbol, character; character.

拡張新字体 (Japanese): extended shinjitai

Definitions

  1. extended shinjitai

Ancestry of “拡張新字体”, step by step

拡張新字体 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 新字体

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese新字体shinjitai
2Japanese字体the form of a character; handwriting
3Japanese字letter, character; handwriting, penmanship; a...
4Middle Chinese字letter, symbol, character; character

via Japanese 拡張

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese拡張An expansion or extension of range, scale or...

Words derived from “拡張新字体”

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