~帳

~ちょう · ~chou · JLPT N2 · noun

book

📒 帳 = 巾 cloth + 長 long: a long cloth, later a bound record book

帳 first meant a curtain or hanging cloth. It came to mean a ledger or notebook, and as a suffix it marks books for writing in: 手帳 techou (pocket diary), 通帳 tsuuchou (bankbook), 電話帳 denwachou (phone book).

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