Illustration: At a small secondhand bookshop counter, a customer passes a well-handled modern paperback to the shopkeeper along with a short stack of other used books. Its bent cover corner and softened spine show ordinary reading wear.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

古ふる本ほん

furuhon

secondhand book

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしはその古本ふるほんに倍額ばいがくを払はらった。

    I paid double the price for the secondhand book.

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  2. あの古本ふるほんはまったくの掘ほり出だし物ものだ。

    That old book is a real find.

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  3. 駅前えきまえの店みせで古本ふるほんを三冊買さんさつかった。

    I bought three secondhand books at a shop near the station.

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Kanji in 古本

  • 古oldOnコKunふるい・ふる-
  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと

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