版

音読おんよみ: ハン

訓読くんよみ: none *

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: かたへん(片)

Meaning

Printing Block / Edition / Impression

  • 出版しゅっぱん — publishing
  • 初版しょはん — first edition
  • 新版しんぱん — new edition
  • 再版さいはん — reprint
  • 原版げんぱん — original printing block
  • 改訂版かいていばん — revised edition
  • 復刻版ふっこくばん — facsimile edition
  • 限定版げんていばん — limited edition

版 is a phono-semantic compound: 片 (slice, part) provides the radical and semantic element, while 反 (phonetic) gives the reading. It originally referred to carved wooden blocks for printing, later extending to editions and versions.

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