組版

Japanese

Kanji in this term
組	版
く(み) Grade: 2	はん Grade: 5
yutōyomi

Alternative spelling
組み版

Etymology

組み (“composition”) +‎ 版 (“copy”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) くみはん [kùmíháń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟mʲihã̠ɴ]

Noun

組(くみ)版(はん) • (kumihan) 

1. (typography) typesetting or composition

   Meronyms: 植字, 文選

   組(くみ)版(はん)工(こう)

   kumihankō

   a compositor

Verb

組(くみ)版(はん)する • (kumihan suru) suru (stem 組(くみ)版(はん)し (kumihan shi), past 組(くみ)版(はん)した (kumihan shita))

1. (typography) to typeset or compose

Usage notes

• This term could be used synonymously with 植字 (shokuji), although it is actually its holonym. 植字 (shokuji) refers to the specific task of composing type with 約物 (yakumono, “punctuation”) and 込め物 (komemono, “spacing”), which is done after 文選 (bunsen, “type picking”). 組版 (kumihan) encompasses these two tasks.