Illustration: At a classroom desk, a student straightens a fresh sheet of Japanese manuscript paper beneath one hand. Its distinctive twenty-by-twenty arrangement of character squares and divided central gutter are plainly visible.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん稿こう用よう紙し

genkouyoushi

Japanese manuscript paper

Its squares each hold one character. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. これが現在げんざいの原稿用紙げんこうようしの一般様式いっぱんようしきの元もととなっている。

    This became the original of the general form of the current manuscript paper.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 作文さくぶんを原稿用紙げんこうようしに書かいてください。

    Please write your essay on Japanese manuscript paper.

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  3. 原稿用紙げんこうようしのマスに一文字ひともじずつ書かいた。

    I wrote one character in each square of the manuscript paper.

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Kanji in 原稿用紙

  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
  • 稿draft; copyOnコウKunわら・したがき
  • 用utilize; businessOnヨウKunもちいる
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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