結けつ縄じょう

noun

knotted cord or rope

Refers to a cord or rope that has been tied into knots, often for practical or symbolic purposes.

• 古こ代だいでは、結けつ縄じょうが記き録ろくの手しゅ段だんとして使つかわれた。

  In ancient times, knotted cords were used as a means of record-keeping.

noun

quipu; quippu

Abbreviation of 結縄文字 (けつじょうもじ), referring to the Inca knotted-string recording device. This sense is domain-specific and rare outside historical or archaeological contexts.

See also: 結縄文字

• 結けつ縄じょうはインカ帝てい国こくで広ひろく用もちいられた情じょう報ほう伝でん達たつのシステムだ。

  Quipu was a widely used information system in the Inca Empire.