Illustration: In a small publishing studio, an editor works with a long accordion manuscript whose pages carry a continuous wordless illustrated story. Its opening shows a child planting a seed, its extensive middle follows daily watering, and its ending shows the child beneath a grown sunflower.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう略りゃく

chuuryaku

to omit the middle of a text

Example sentences

配くばられた手紙てがみの写うつしには中略ちゅうりゃくがありました。
The copy of the letter we were given had a section omitted from the middle.
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ここで中略ちゅうりゃくを入いれると、話はなしの流ながれが分わかりにくくなります。
If you omit this part, the flow of the story becomes harder to follow.
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この引用いんようは中略ちゅうりゃくなしで載のせてください。
Please include this quotation without omitting anything from the middle.
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Kanji in 中略

中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
略abbreviation; omissionOnリャクKunほぼ・はぶく・おかす

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