How to say "scroll" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 幅ふくnounCovers a physical scroll, treated as a unit of a hanging scroll or painting. It functions like a counter, so it is less a standalone noun for 'scroll' than a way of counting such works.
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe loanword, and the word you want for computing: scrolling text or moving a screen up and down. It is a marginal choice for physical scrolls despite its gloss.
- 一幅いっぷくnounRefers to a single physical scroll, essentially a counted form of 幅 with the same nuance of one work of calligraphy or painting on a scroll.
- 巻子本かんすぼんnounA scroll in the sense of a rolled book or manuscript — a long document rolled up for reading and storage, not artwork, and not the computing sense.
- 巻き軸まきじくnounA scroll understood through its roller: the gloss 'scroll roller' is central, so it suits a rolled scroll on a rod, such as a hanging scroll, rather than the computing sense.
For computing, 「スクロール」 is the usual choice; for a physical scroll use 幅 or 一幅 as a counter-like word, or 「巻き軸」 for a hanging scroll, or 巻子本 for a rolled book format.
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