戸籍抄本

Reading

Kana: こせきしょうほん

Romaji: kosekishōhon

Definition

noun

1

official copy of part of family register

Kanji

戸

Readings: コ、 と

Meanings: door, counter for houses, door radical (no. 63)

籍

Reading: セキ

Meanings: enroll, domiciliary register, membership

抄

Reading: ショウ

Meanings: extract, selection, summary, copy, spread thin

本

Readings: ホン、 もと

Meanings: book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

Example Sentence

昨日(きのう)、ひょんなことで父親(ちちおや)の戸籍(こせき)抄本(しょうほん)のコピーを見(み)てしまいました。

➥Yesterday I stumbled across a copy of my father's family register.