JLPT N1Kanji compounds
換骨奪胎
Readingかんこつだったいkankotsudattai
- Meaning
- 古い作品の趣向を生かしつつ、自分の独自の作品に作りかえること
- Explanation
- 「換骨奪胎（かんこつだったい）」 means to make a work into a new one of your own by adding your own ingenuity while drawing on the ideas and forms of an older person's work; it is used positively as a technique of expression. It differs decisively from c3's "steal as is," which is plagiarism; the core is adding originality.
Original Japanese explanation
「換骨奪胎（かんこつだったい）」は古人の作品の発想や形式を生かしつつ、独自の工夫を加えて自分の新たな作品に作りかえることで、表現技法として肯定的に使う。c3の「そのまま盗み取る」盗作・剽窃とは決定的に異なり、独創性を加える点が核心である。
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