WORD DETAIL
再版
さいはん
Examples
Included kanji
Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
再版(さいはん) means issuing another printing of a book. Nominal再版が決まるis a publishing decision; verbal再版したis completed reprinting. - Basic usage: A new printing is approved for a sold-out poetry collection; another book is reprinted after correcting first-edition errors.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Decision to reprint and reprinting after correction
- The first sentence remains at the decision stage; the second reports completed action including corrections. The term need not imply an unchanged mechanical copy.

