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序文

Reading

Kana: じょぶん
Romaji: jobun
Kana
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Definition

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preface; foreword; introduction

Kanji

Readings: ジョ、 つい.で、 ついで
Meanings: preface, beginning, order, precedence, occasion, chance, incidentally
Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや
Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

Example Sentences

序文(じょぶん)にはなんと()いてありますか。
➥How does the preface run?
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この辞書(じしょ)には序文(じょぶん)はあるが端書(はじが)きがない。
➥This dictionary has a preface, not a foreword.
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序文(じょぶん)著者(ちょしゃ)(つぎ)のように()べている。
➥In the introduction, the author is stating as follows.
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(かれ)はその戯曲(ぎきょく)にすばらしい序文(じょぶん)()いた。
➥He wrote a fine preface to the play.
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