出典|しゅってんshutten[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounsource (e.g. quotation); authority
   確たしかに、Ｍａｎｋｉｎｄ　Ｑｕａｒｔｅｒｌｙ誌しは出典しゅってんとして頼たよるにはもっとも奇妙きみょうなものである。↗

   Surely the most curious of sources consulted is Mankind Quarterly.

• Synonym出所しゅっしょCasualColloquial: same word as above (also written 「出所」); it also covers the source of money, as in 「金の出どころ」, which 「出典」 never does.
• Synonym典拠てんきょWrittenWritten/formal prose: an authoritative basis for claims or scholarship, as in 「典拠を示す」; leans toward scholarly textual research and sits close to 「出典」.
• Related情報源じょうほうげんNeutralNeutral: the source information comes from, leaning toward news and intelligence, as in 「情報源を明かす」; any channel at all, rather than a cited text or dataset.
• Related出どころでどころCasualColloquial: where something came from, e.g. 「噂の出どころ」; often the origin of a rumor, while 「出典」 is the formal source of a quotation or data.

Use 「出典」 for the formal source of a quotation or data, as in 「出典を明記する」. For scholarly authority choose 「典拠」, for news or intelligence sources 「情報源」, and for the casual origin of a rumor or money 「出どころ」.

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1. ある表現ひょうげんや情報じょうほうのでどころ。