チョウ, とばり

notebook, account book, album, curtain, veil, net, tent

JLPT1 G3 S11 F1459

長# long + cloth → long cloth → *screen*; *curtain*; *canopy* → *counter* (for rolls of cloth etc.); *record book*; *register* (← information recorded on long scrolls).

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