じたい

See also: じだい

Japanese

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of じたい – see the following entries.

【自体】 [adverb] from the start [noun] itself, the thing in itself

【事態】 [noun] situation (especially negative); state of affairs; circumstances

【辞退】 [noun] declining, turning down, refusal [verb] to turn down, to decline, to refuse, to pass up

【字体】 [noun] the form of a character that belongs to a system, such as "Old", "New", "Simplified", "Traditional", etc.; this concerns the major, systematic differences, such as which radicals to be used, or stroke counts; compare 字形 (jikei)

(This term, じたい (jitai), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)