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Kanji Detail for 帳 - "curtain, ledger, notebook"

帳

  • Meaning

    帳 means "curtain, ledger, notebook."

    1. Curtain - A hanging cloth for privacy.

    2. Ledger - A book for recording accounts.

    3. Notebook - A bound book for writing.

  • Words using 帳

    • 手帳 てちょう Listen notebook; memo pad; (pocket) diary
    • 帳簿 ちょうぼ Listen account book; register; ledger
    • 通帳 つうちょう Listen passbook; bankbook
    • 台帳 だいちょう Listen account book; ledger; register
    • 記帳 きちょう Listen registry; entry; book-keeping
    • 帳消し ちょうけし Listen writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books
    • メモ帳 メモちょう Listen memo book; memo pad; notebook
    • 几帳面 きちょうめん Listen methodical; precise; meticulous

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    • Verified meaning: curtain, ledger, notebook
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ちょう, とばり)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 帳

    Surnames 帳(ちょう)Listen 帳(とばり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    notebook; account book; album; curtain; veil; net; tent

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    tent; screen, mosquito net

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 賬|账[zhang4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    tent, screen, mosquito net; debt, credit, account

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To set up. Such as 共張, commonly written as 供帳. | A curtain. Where soldiers stay, such as 營帳, 帳棚. Now, what is set up over a bed is also called 帳. | An account book. Such as 帳簿. Also written as 賬簿.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    choh(チョウ) チョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tobari(とばり) とばり

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    巾 (haba・habahen・kimben)

  • Related Keywords

    curtain ledger notebook counting hangings account book accounts balance bookkeeping cloth diary expense financial inventory journal log memo privacy record register statement tally transaction writing

Sentences including 帳

  • Why don't you look it up in the phone book?

  • There's a telephone book for you to see.

  • Please put down your name in this book.

  • Look in the phone book.

  • I left my address book in my room.

  • This is my account book.

  • Jim set out to write something in his notebook.

  • Start by doing the books.

  • I looked up his phone number in the telephone book.

  • Where is the telephone book?

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