Kanji 帳 notebook, account book, album Related words 帳簿 specifically means an account book or ledger for financial records, while 帳 is the broader term that can refer to any kind of bound record book.
ノート is a casual, personal notebook for writing notes, while 帳 implies a formal book used for keeping records or accounts.
簿 is used for formal registers or official record books (名簿 , 帳簿 ), while 帳 is a more general suffix for notebooks and ledgers, including personal ones (手帳 , 日記帳 ).
Don't confuse with 帳 (a record book) and 長 (a chief or head, as in 部長 ) share the same reading ちょう but have completely unrelated meanings.
Written identically as 帳 , but read ちょう it means a notebook or ledger, a completely different word from とばり meaning curtain or veil.
Word family· 81 notebook; pocket diary; memo pad · certificate; identification card
passbook; bankbook
account book; ledger; register
account book; ledger; register
registration; entry; bookkeeping; signing in
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public exhibition of a Buddhist image · revealing something hidden; exposing a secret · opening a gambling house; holding a gambling party
closing balance; balance of accounts; bottom line · consistency; coherence; making things add up
financial records; account books; ledgers; vouchers; forms
ledger; account book
notebook; account book; register
thick curtain; drop curtain
telephone directory; phone book
pocket money ledger; allowance record book
address book
free-standing screen; partition screen
register of believers; death register · register of reciters of the Buddha's name
register of names; name list
hotel register; guest book
business manager; proprietor
curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences
keeping accounts; balancing accounts
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Etymology The kanji 帳 originally referred to a curtain or hanging screen, later extended to mean a book or register, possibly from the idea of a bound volume that can be opened like a curtain.
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