漢書(かんじょ)

かんじょ
noun
Book of Han (Chinese history classic)
1. the Book of Han, an ancient Chinese history
A classic history of China's Former Han dynasty, compiled mainly by Ban Gu in the first century CE. One of the canonical Chinese histories, it is occasionally cited in Japanese as the source of well-known proverbs and phrases.
この言葉(ことば)は漢書(かんじょ)に由来(ゆらい)する。
This phrase originates from the Book of Han.
漢書(かんじょ)は中国(ちゅうごく)の正史(せいし)の一(ひと)つだ。
The Book of Han is one of China's official histories.
高校(こうこう)の漢文(かんぶん)の授業(じゅぎょう)で漢書(かんじょ)の一節(いっせつ)を習(なら)った。
In high-school classical-Chinese class, we studied a passage from the Book of Han.

The title is read かんじょ, not かんしょ. It is a Chinese history of the Former Han (前漢(ぜんかん)) dynasty.

RELATED:

  • 史記(しき): the Records of the Grand Historian — an earlier, even more famous Chinese history
  • 漢文(かんぶん): classical Chinese, as studied in Japanese schools
  • 正史(せいし): an official dynastic history
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