connective N2 common casualpolitewritten
というよりは — rather than ~
というよりは
Builds on というより
Meaning
- rather than ~ / more ... than ~ — the は-marked variant of というより, adding a touch of contrastive emphasis
Key sentence
彼は学者というよりは芸術家だ。
He's an artist rather than a scholar.
Easily confused with
See というよりは in real sentences
Jengo shows というよりは the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar. Editorial confidence: medium.