籍
enroll, domiciliary register, membership
Readings
On'yomi
- セキ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
籍 centers on being formally recorded in a list or register: enrolling in a group, holding membership, or having one's name in an official domiciliary register.
Most common words using 籍
20 of 103- 書籍しょせきN2
book; publication
- 国籍こくせきN2
nationality; citizenship
- 在籍ざいせきN1
being enrolled (at a school); being registered; being a member (of a team, organization, etc.)
- 移籍いせき
transfer (of one's name into another family register)
- 籍せき
one's family register; one's domicile
- 戸籍こせきN1
family register
- 入籍にゅうせきN1
registering (a marriage, etc.) in the family register
- 本籍ほんせき
one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives)
- 除籍じょせき
removing a name
- 船籍せんせき
ship's nationality; ship's country of registration
- 転籍てんせき
transfer of permanent domicile (as recorded in the family register)
- 鬼籍きせき
necrology; roster of the dead
- 漢籍かんせき
Chinese book; Chinese classics
- 学籍がくせき
school register
- 典籍てんせき
books; writings
- 地籍ちせき
land register
- 党籍とうせき
party membership; party register
- 戸籍謄本こせきとうほん
official copy of the family register
- 無国籍むこくせき
statelessness
- 僧籍そうせき
priesthood registry
Study
Etymology
籍 combines 竹 (bamboo) with 耤, which likely contributes the sound. Historically, bamboo strips were used for writing records, so 竹 suggests a written register or list.
Meaning mnemonic
The top 竹 represents bamboo slips used for record-keeping. The bottom 耤 looks like a complex ledger. Together, they show a bamboo register where names are enrolled.
Reading mnemonic
For セキ, imagine a secretary (セキ) carefully writing your name in the bamboo register: secretary -> セキ, and you are now enrolled.