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丁付け (chouzuke) Japanese meaning: pagination | Kotomora

丁ちょう付づけ

ちょ

う

づ

け

Meanings

1

pagination; page numbering

Refers to the act or process of assigning page numbers, especially in books, documents, or manuscripts.

この本ほんは丁ちょう付づけが間ま違ちがっている。
The pagination of this book is wrong.

Kanji

丁street, ward, town
付adhere, attach, refer to

Related words

ページ付づけ
More common modern term for pagination, often used in digital contexts. 丁付け is more traditional and associated with physical books or formal documents.
ノンブル
A loanword from French 'numéro', used in printing to refer to page numbers, especially the printed numbers themselves. 丁付け emphasizes the action of numbering.

Etymology

Compound of 丁 (chō, 'page' or 'leaf') and 付け (tsuke, 'attaching' or 'assigning'), literally 'page attaching'. The reading ちょうづけ follows standard rendaku voicing.

原げん稿こうに丁ちょう付づけをする。

I number the pages of the manuscript.