"old characters": Synonym of 旧字体 (kyūjitai)

letter, character / handwriting, penmanship

(Kagoshima dialect) a letter, epistle (written message or note)

a letter, epistle (written message or note) / (archaic) a utility paper used for various purposes, such as for jotting down notes or for wrapping items

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

conjunctive form of 書く

write; record (words, figures) on the surface of (something) / compose; put (an idea, etc) into words

paleo-, old, used, previous

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend