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見本

みほん

sample, specimen, model, example

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Examples

  1. この布の見本をください。

    このぬののみほんをください。

    Please give me a sample of this cloth.

  2. 店の前に商品の見本が並べてある。

    みせのまえにしょうひんのみほんがならべてある。

    Samples of the products are lined up in front of the shop.

  3. 彼は真面目な学生の見本のような人だ。

    かれはまじめながくせいのみほんのようなひとだ。

    He is the very model of a serious student.

Common patterns

見本を見せる
to show a sample
見本市
trade fair
見本を取り寄せる
to send off for a sample

Memory tip

Literally 'the thing you look at as the base'. It covers both a commercial sample and a person held up as an example; サンプル is the modern loanword for the commercial sense.

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