帳消し

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちょう
Grade: 3

Grade: 3
on’yomi kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ちょーけし [chòókéshí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕo̞ːke̞ɕi]

Noun

(ちょう)() • (chōkeshi) 

  1. writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books
    負債(ふさい)帳消(ちょうけ)にするしかなかった。
    Fusai wa chōkeshi ni suru shika nakatta.
    We had to write off the debt.
  2. cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for); offsetting; undoing; wiping out
    地上(ちじょう)空費(くうひ)される時間(じかん)飛行機(ひこうき)(はや)さという有利(ゆうり)(てん)帳消(ちょうけ)にしてしまう。
    Chijō de kūhisareru jikan ga hikōki no hayasa toiu yūri na ten o chōkeshi ni shiteshimau.
    Hours lost on the ground cancel out the advantage of speed in the air.

Verb

(ちょう)()する • (chōkeshi suru) suru (stem (ちょう)() (chōkeshi shi), past (ちょう)()した (chōkeshi shita))

  1. writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books
  2. cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for); offsetting; undoing; wiping out

Usage notes

Often used in the pattern of 帳消しにする or 帳消しになる

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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