札
tag, paper money, counter for bonds, placard, bid
Readings
On'yomi
- サツ
Kun'yomi
- ふだ
Nanori
- さっ
Meaning
札 centers on a flat, labeled piece of material used for identification or exchange: a tag, placard, or paper money. The bid and counter-for-bonds senses extend from the idea of a marked slip used in transactions.
Most common words using 札
20 of 171- 札幌さっぽろN5
Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)
- 札ふだN1
ticket; token; check; receipt
- 札さつN3
banknote; bill; note; paper money
- 入札にゅうさつN1
bid; tender; bidding
- 改札かいさつN3
examination of tickets
- 落札らくさつN1
successful bid; winning a tender
- 手札しゅさつ
handwritten letter; mail; correspondence
- 手札てふだ
one's hand
- 切り札きりふだ
trump; trump card
- お札おさつ
banknote; bill; note
- 札束さつたば
bundle of banknotes; stack of bills
- 名札なふだN2
name plate; name tag; label
- 値札ねふだ
price tag; price label
- 花札はなふだ
hanafuda; flower cards; playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower
- 札所ふだしょ
temple which issues amulets
- 万札まんさつ
10,000 yen bill
- 表札ひょうさつN1
nameplate; doorplate
- 偽札にせさつN3
counterfeit (paper) money; counterfeit bill; counterfeit note
- 偽札ぎさつ
counterfeit bill; counterfeit note
- 御札おふだ
amulet or talisman issued by a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple
Study
Etymology
札 combines 木 (tree, wood) with 乚, a simplified form of 乙, which here likely represents a tied or bound object. The character originally referred to a wooden slip used for writing, later extended to paper tags and money.
Meaning mnemonic
A wooden 木 slip with a tied string or hook 乚 becomes a tag or placard. Picture a wooden tag tied to an item, later used for paper money and bids.
Reading mnemonic
For サツ, imagine a stack of paper money tags sitting on a wooden desk: stack -> サツ, and the tags are all 札.