帳簿|ちょうぼchoubo[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounaccount book; register; ledger
   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.

• Synonym台帳だいちょうWrittenWritten/formal prose: a register or master record serving as the basis for records, as in 「土地台帳」; 「帳簿」 leans toward books of income and expenditure.
• Synonym帳面ちょうめんNeutralAn account book or notebook, common in colloquial speech, as in 「帳面を合わせる」; 「帳簿」 leans toward formal accounting books.
• Synonym会計帳簿かいけいちょうぼWrittenWritten/formal prose: the full term for accounting books; 「帳簿」 is the shorter, more common word.

Use 「帳簿」 for books recording money and goods coming in and going out, as in 「帳簿をつける」「裏帳簿」; use 「台帳」 for master registers, 「帳面」 for account books in colloquial speech, and 「会計帳簿」 as the formal accounting term.

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1. 金銭きんせんや物品ぶっぴんなどの出納すいとう、収支しゅうしなどを記しるしておく帳面ちょうめん。総そう勘定かんじょう元帳もとちょうなど。