Illustration: In a publisher's small letterpress workshop, an editor holds a worn book with a distinctive illustration of a cat on its cover. Beside him, the matching cat printing block rests in an open storage crate with the book's dismantled printing forme.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

絶ぜっ版ぱん

zeppan

out of print

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Example sentences

  1. この本ほんはかつてはベストセラーだったが、今いまは絶版ぜっぱんになっている。

    This book, which was once a best seller, is now out of print.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしはその本ほんを1冊買さつかいたいが、その本ほんは絶版ぜっぱんになっている。

    I want to buy a copy of the book, but it is out of print.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 村岡むらおかの本ほんの定価ていかは25銭せんで、最初さいしょは500部ぶが出版しゅっぱんされたが、重版じゅうはんされず絶版ぜっぱんとなった。

    MURAOKA’s book was sold for 25 sen, but only 500 copies were issued before it went out of print and it was never reprinted.

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

Kanji in 絶版

  • 絶discontinue; severOnゼツKunたえる・たやす・たつ
  • 版printing block; printing plateOnハン

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