How to say "catalogue" in Japanese
- nounCovers the everyday sense of 'catalogue'—a booklet listing products, services, or exhibition items. This loanword is what you use for mail-order or company catalogues, and it is normally written in kana alone.
- 目録もくろくnounCovers formal, systematic catalogues such as a library's catalogue of books or a museum's inventory. It carries a more scholarly or official nuance than カタログ and also means 'inventory'.
- 一覧表いちらんひょうnounMarginal for 'catalogue': its core senses are 'list', 'table', and 'schedule', so it fits when the catalogue is really a tabular overview of items. It is seldom the word for a printed product or library catalogue.
- 一覧いちらんnounLike 一覧表, this is really 'summary', 'list', or 'table', and 'catalog' is only a secondary gloss. Choose it when you mean a quick-reference listing rather than a catalogue as a publication or inventory.
Use 「カタログ」 for commercial product or exhibition catalogues, 目録 for formal library or archival catalogues, and 一覧表 or 一覧 when the emphasis is simply on a tabular list rather than a catalogue as such.
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