a highly rounded feminine handwriting style born in the 1970s

A style of written kanji, encompassing an angular form and a set of ryakuji. It is politically associated with leftist student activism.

one letter, one character

(Chinese language) regular form of Chinese character, traditional form of Chinese characters

surplus, in the black

different character

(typography) a typographic ligature

variant Chinese character, variant kanji

quadrangular pyramid

(Buddhism) the four stages of existence: 生有(しょうう) (shōu, “moment of birth”), 本有(ほんぬ) (honnu, “life”), 死有(しう) (shiu, “moment of death”), and 中有(ちゅうう) (chūu, “state between death and the next reincarnation”)