複製 (ふくせい, fukusei) Japanese meaning: reproduction | Kotomora

複ふく製せい

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複製する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	複ふく製せいする	複ふく製せいしない
Polite	複ふく製せいします	複ふく製せいしません
Past polite	複ふく製せいしました	複ふく製せいしませんでした
Past	複ふく製せいした	複ふく製せいしなかった
Te-form	複ふく製せいして	複ふく製せいしないで
Desire	複ふく製せいしたい	複ふく製せいしたくない
Potential	複ふく製せいできる	複ふく製せいできない
Passive	複ふく製せいされる	複ふく製せいされない
Causative	複ふく製せいさせる	複ふく製せいさせない
Causative passive	複ふく製せいさせられる	複ふく製せいさせられない
Volitional	複ふく製せいしよう
Polite volitional	複ふく製せいしましょう
Imperative	複ふく製せいしろ	複ふく製せいするな
Conditional	複ふく製せいすれば	複ふく製せいしなければ
Tara conditional	複ふく製せいしたら	複ふく製せいしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

reproduction; duplication; copy

Broadly covers making a copy of a document, artwork, recording, or other item. Often used in technical, legal, and everyday contexts.

この絵

Kanji

複duplicate, double, compound
製made in..., manufacture

Related words· 9

コピーN4
コピー is the casual, everyday word for photocopying or digital copying, while 複製 is more formal and used for artistic, legal, or high-fidelity reproductions.
模も造ぞう
模造 implies imitation or counterfeit with a negative nuance, while 複製 is neutral and implies a faithful, legitimate copy.
再さい現げんN1
再現 means to recreate an experience, scene, or event, whereas 複製 specifically means physically copying an object like a document or artwork.
クローン
複製 is the general Japanese word for a copy or reproduction, while クローン specifically refers to a genetically identical biological duplicate or an exact computing duplicate.

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転てん載さい
複製 is the broad term for making a copy of anything (a document, artwork, etc.), while 転載 specifically means republishing content in another publication or medium.
レプリカ
複製 is a broader term covering any kind of duplication (documents, art, etc.), while レプリカ specifically implies a faithful, often museum-quality physical copy of an object.
複ふく写しゃN2
複製 is used for reproducing artworks, books, or manufactured items, whereas 複写 refers specifically to copying documents or images.
模も倣ほうN1
複製 means making a physical reproduction or duplicate of an object or document, while 模倣 is about imitating a style, method, or behavior.

Opposites

オリジナル
オリジナル refers to the original item, in direct contrast to 複製, which is a copy made from it.

Don't confuse with

復ふく元げん
復元 sounds similar to 複製 but means restoring something to its original state, not making a duplicate of it.

Counted with

部ぶN2
複製 is often counted with 部 when referring to copies of documents, books, or printed materials.
点てんN4
複製 is counted with 点 when referring to reproductions of artworks, such as paintings or prints.

Word family

複ふく製せい品ひん
copy; reproduction; replica; facsimile
複ふく製せい権けん
reproduction right; right of reproduction
自じ己こ複ふく製せい
self-replication; self-duplication
複ふく製せい防ぼう止し技

Etymology

Compound of 複 (multiple, duplicate) and 製 (manufacture, make). The spelling 復製 is a historical variant using 復 (repeat, restore), now considered non-standard.

複ふく製せい

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