How to say "diary" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 日記にっきnounThe word for a diary or journal as writing: the daily record itself and the entries you make in it, as in keeping a diary or writing in one every night.
- 日記帳にっきちょうnounPoints to the diary as a physical object: the notebook in which a diary is kept, the thing you buy and fill in, rather than the writing itself.
Choose 日記 for a diary as writing — the record itself and the entries you keep — and 日記帳 for the physical notebook or book in which that diary is written.
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