Illustration: In a Japanese archive reading room, a conservator opens an old bound manuscript on a padded cradle, with its pages angled toward two researchers. One researcher has brought several modern editions with matching decorative cover motifs and keeps fingers at corresponding passages.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん典てん

genten

original text

Example sentences

その翻訳ほんやくは原典げんてんに忠実ちゅうじつだ。
The translation is true to the original.
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彼かれの翻訳ほんやくは原典げんてんに忠実ちゅうじつだ。
His translation is close to the original.
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彼かれは「戦争せんそうと平和へいわ」の原典げんてんを研究けんきゅうした。
He studied the original text of War and Peace.
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Kanji in 原典

原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
典code; ceremonyOnテン・デンKunふみ・のり

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