First opened Tuesday, December 22, 2009
手帳
てちょう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
notebook
A pocket notebook is a “hand ledger”, in use from the early 1600s.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
ジムは手帳に何か書き始めた。
Jim set out to write something in his notebook.
腰を下ろし、手帳を開きました。
I sat down and opened my notebook.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 手 (te, “hand”) + 帳 (chō, “notebook, ledger”). Appears from the early 1600s.”
Source: Wiktionary: 手帳 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.