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A soft-redirection template for Japanese kyūjitai entries.

Usage:. Note that the shinjitai form may not be a lemma; it is up to the template to find the lemma.

The template can also be used to soft-redirect spellings with differences (e.g.  to ), and extended shinjitai (e.g.  to ). They're collectively referred to as glyph variants, hence the name.

Example
The alternative spellings of are organized as follows:

Note that and  are not glyph variants because hiragana and katakana are not always exchangeable. Similarly, and  are not because the kana  and  are not always exchangeable. They're specific to words so they're considered alternative spellings. However, shinjitai and kyūjitai are almost always exchangeable (except in names, terms referencing glyphs like, etc.), so kyūjitai terms can use to duplicate everything on the shinjitai entry with no problem, including the s. The exceptions are spellings involving ambiguous shinjitai such as , and how to handle them is undecided at the moment.