Onyomi: サク, サツ · Kunyomi: ふみ · Meanings: counter for books, tome, volume
Kanji for counter for books, tome, volume
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冊 is an ancient pictograph. It originally showed thin wooden or bamboo slips tied together with strings. Before paper, books were made by tying many slips together into one bundle. Because of this image, 冊 came to mean a book, volume, or counter for books.
冊 is wooden slips tied together to make a book.
Imagine several wooden or bamboo strips bound together with string. That tied bundle of pages is 冊, a book or volume.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 冊 | さつ | counter for books | common JLPT-N1 Counter |
| 冊 | さく | imperial edict to confer nobility titles (in ancient China) | Noun |
| 冊数 | さっすう | number of books | Noun |
| 冊子 | さっし | book, booklet, story book, pamphlet, notebook | common Noun |
| 草紙 | そうし | written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll) | Noun |
| 冊子版 | さっしばん | printed edition (as opposed to digital) | Noun |
| 冊封 | さくほう | bestowing peerage by imperial edict (in ancient China), document bestowing peerage | Noun |
| 冊封使 | さくほうし | accredited Chinese envoy to neighbouring kingdoms | Noun |
| 冊封体制 | さくほうたいせい | tributary system (of Imperial China) | Noun |
| 冊子体 | さっしたい | bound form (of a magazine or book; as opposed to a single sheet, scroll, etc.) | Noun |