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登记本 (dēng jì běn) — logbook, register, record book

Definition

A physical register or logbook for writing down entries, names, or events by hand. The classifier is 本, and it is used for both official (visitor, inventory) and informal records.

noun
logbookregisterrecord book
Measure word · 本

Examples

  • 登记本。
    Qǐng bǎ míng zì xiě zài dēng jì běn shàng.
    Please write your name in the logbook.
  • 登记本。
    Tā měi tiān dōu huì jiǎn chá dēng jì běn lǐ de jì lù.
    He checks the records in the register every day.
  • 登记本。
    Zhè běn dēng jì běn yǐ jīng xiě mǎn le.
    This logbook is already full.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

登记register
登dēngrecord记jìnote
联合Coordinate
本běnbook

登记 means to record entries, and 本 is a book, so it is a book for recording.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 癶癶bōleft and right feet
  • 豆豆dòupictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone

登 pairs 癶, left and right feet, with 豆, a raised object or stepping stone; its older form also showed two hands at the bottom, which later dropped.

Open 登 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 記; 记 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánspeech; words
Sound part声符shēngfú
己
己jǐ記jì
Same sound today

The traditional form 記 pairs 言 (speech; words) with 己 as a sound part; the simplified 记 is a later shorthand, so its right side is not the historical component.

Open 记 →

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

本 adds a stroke at the bottom of a tree shape to mark the roots, giving the sense of foundation or original.

Open 本 →
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