Illustration: In a small Japanese publisher's meeting room, an exhausted author slides a thick stack of loose manuscript pages across the table to an editor. The pages lie face down, with one corner still held by an oversized binder clip.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん稿こう

genkou

manuscript, draft

Example sentences

  1. この原稿げんこうは書かき直なおしたほうがいいな。

    I’d better rewrite this paper.

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  2. マユコは原稿げんこうの清書せいしょをした。

    Mayuko made a fair copy of the draft.

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  3. 私わたしはこの一年いちねん原稿げんこうを書かいている。

    I have been writing this manuscript for a year.

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Kanji in 原稿

  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
  • 稿draft; copyOnコウKunわら・したがき

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