A matching tag or token used to identify and claim items, such as luggage at a cloakroom or a baggage claim area.
Used in contexts where matching halves of a tally stick or a record of accounts is kept; somewhat old-fashioned outside of traditional settings.
I received a claim check at the baggage counter.
If you lose the claim tag, you cannot pick up your luggage.
In old merchant houses, they reconciled accounts using tally sticks.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant spelling with okurigana; less common but still used.
Compound of 合い (ai, 'matching') + 札 (fuda, 'tag'). The kanji spelling 合札 directly reflects the meaning of a matching tag.