publication; edition; published in; publication frequency
Suffix attached to nouns to indicate a publication, its edition, year of publication, or frequency. Common in compounds like 朝刊 (morning edition), 月刊 (monthly publication), 2023年刊 (published in 2023).
This newspaper has a morning edition and an evening edition.
This book is published by Iwanami Shoten.
That magazine is published monthly.
This book was published in 2020.
This dictionary was published in 1998.
weekly publication; weekly (magazine, etc.)
daily publication; daily issue
new book; new publication
monthly publication; monthly issue
publication; issue
founding of a periodical; first issue; launch
morning edition; morning newspaper
evening edition; evening paper
publication; issue; launching (a publication)
already published; previously issued
special issue; extra number
suspension of publication
discontinuation of a publication; ceasing publication
reissue; republication; putting back in print
quarterly publication
annual publication; yearly periodical
published book; printed book
publication; publishing
suspension of publication
reissue; republication; reprint; resumption of publication
colophon (of old Sino-Japanese books)
first publication
back number; old edition
published every ten days; ten-day periodical
unpublished
cessation of publication; discontinuation of a periodical
continuing publication; serial publication
forthcoming publication; to be published soon; coming soon · recent publication
The kanji 刊 originally means 'to carve' or 'to engrave', referring to woodblock printing. As a suffix, it came to denote publication-related concepts.