noun
leather cord; leather binding
Refers to a cord made of leather, historically used for binding bamboo or wooden slips into books in ancient China. The term is literary and appears mainly in classical contexts or fixed expressions like 韋編三絶.
「韋編三絶」という故事成語は、孔子が易経を繰り返し読んで綴じ紐が三度切れたことに由来する。
The idiom 韋編三絶 comes from the story that Confucius read the I Ching so many times that the leather binding cords broke three times.