漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
帳: notebook, account book
Also: album, curtain, veil, net, tent
JLPT N111 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
巾 carries the meaning · 長 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 帳簿ちょうぼaccount book, register
- 帳尻ちょうじりbalance of accounts
- 帳消しちょうけしoffset, writing off
- 手帳てちょうnotebook
- 通帳つうちょうpassbook
- 電話帳でんわちょうtelephone book
- 日記帳にっきちょうdiary
- 几帳面なきちょうめんなmethodical, precise, steady
Also read とばり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)巾 (meaning) + 長 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 帳 (rev. 93443677), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cloth (巾) + long (長). A "long" piece of "cloth" used as a curtain or, metaphorically, a long scroll or "notebook" for keeping official records.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
帳 takes the 長 family's reading, チョウ (chou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side帳 notebook · 巾
vs張 counter for bows & stringed instruments · 弓In ChineseSimplified 帐 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhàng
Japan keeps the traditional form 帳; mainland China simplifies it to 帐.
- Simplified
- 帐 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 帳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhàng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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