Illustration: Inside a Japanese natural-history museum, a family studies a life-size reconstruction of early human life behind a low protective rail. Within the exhibit, a lifelike figure shapes a stone flake beside a simple branch shelter, animal hides, and a small hearth.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん始し

genshi

primitive, primeval

Example sentences

  1. その人類学者じんるいがくしゃは原始げんし文化ぶんかに関かんする講演こうえんをした。

    The anthropologist delivered a lecture on primitive cultures.

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  2. 原始げんし社会しゃかいでは、物々交換ぶつぶつこうかんが行おこなわれた。

    In primitive societies barter was used.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. もし君きみが原始げんし社会しゃかいの一員いちいんで、たとえば食料しょくりょうを生産せいさんしたいと思おもうならば、君きみがしなければならないことが二ふたつある。

    If you are a member of a primitive community and you wish to produce, say, food, there are two things that you must do.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 原始

  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
  • 始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる

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