chāo
běn

technical
common

Meaning of 抄本

抄本 means hand-copied book; manuscript copy. Pronounced chāo běn.

  • hand-copied book; manuscript copy

Definitions & Examples

Zhè
běn
shì
Míng
dài
chāo
běn
 
fēi
cháng
zhēn
guì
 

This ancient text is a hand-copied manuscript from the Ming Dynasty and is extremely valuable.

shū
guǎn
shōu
cáng
le
duō
Sòng
Yuán
shí
de
jīng
chāo
běn
 

The library houses many hand-copied Buddhist sutras from the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Yóu
yuán
shū
shī
chuán
 
xué
zhě
men
zhǐ
néng
tōng
guò
jǐn
cún
de
chāo
běn
yán
jiū
nèi
róng
 

Since the original book is lost, scholars can only study its contents through the few surviving manuscript copies.