百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)

ひゃっかじてん
noun
encyclopedia
1. encyclopedia
A comprehensive reference work containing information on a wide range of subjects, arranged alphabetically or thematically.
百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)を読(よ)む。
To read an encyclopedia.
オンライン百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)は便利(べんり)だ。
Online encyclopedias are convenient.
百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)で分(わ)からないことを調(しら)べた。
I looked up something I didn't understand in the encyclopedia.
子(こ)どものとき、百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)で動物(どうぶつ)のことをよく調(しら)べた。
When I was a child, I often looked up things about animals in the encyclopedia.
インターネットの普及(ふきゅう)で、紙(かみ)の百科事典(ひゃっかじてん)はあまり使(つか)われなくなった。
With the spread of the internet, paper encyclopedias are no longer used much.

百科事典(ひゃっかじてん) literally means "hundred-subjects dictionary" — a comprehensive reference work covering all fields of knowledge.

WORD FORMATION:
百科(ひゃっか) (hundred subjects) + 事典(じてん) (reference book). Note: 事典(じてん) (reference of things) vs. 辞典(じてん) (dictionary of words) — both are read じてん but have different kanji.

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Added 2026.1.16 11:32 · Revised 2026.6.5 2:10
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