How to say "ledger" in Japanese

• 台帳だいちょうCommon
  nounA register or ledger kept for systematic administrative record-keeping, listing items one by one — equipment, property, residents. Choose this when 'ledger' means an itemized control register rather than bookkeeping accounts.
• 元帳もとちょうCommon
  nounThe bookkeeping term: the principal ledger in which accounts are kept and entries posted, as in double-entry accounting. Use this for 'ledger' in an accounting or bookkeeping context.
• 原簿げんぼCommon
  nounEmphasizes the original, authoritative record kept by the responsible office or company, as opposed to copies or extracts. Typical of legal and administrative contexts; for an ordinary 'ledger' it is seldom the word you want.
  事務員じむいんは原簿げんぼに記入きにゅうした。↗

  The clerk made an entry in his ledger.
• 帳簿ちょうぼCommon
  nounThe general word for books of account: the records in which a business enters its receipts and payments. Covers 'ledger' in the loose sense of 'the books', as in keeping or inspecting the accounts.
  この帳簿ちょうぼには不明朗ふめいろうな点てんがたくさんある。↗

  There are many questionable points in this ledger.

Use 元帳 for the bookkeeping ledger of accounts, 台帳 for administrative registers of items, 帳簿 for account books generally, and 原簿 when the point is the original authoritative record rather than a copy.

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• 台帳だいちょうaccount book
• 元帳もとちょうledger
• 原簿げんぼledger
• 帳簿ちょうぼaccount book
• 会計帳簿かいけいちょうぼaccount book