• 手帳てちょう — notebook / planner
• 帳簿ちょうぼ — account book / ledger
• 記帳きちょう — registration / signing in
• 通帳つうちょう — bankbook / passbook
• 台帳だいちょう — ledger / register
• 帳消ちょうけし — cancel / cancel out

帳 combines 巾 (thread) and 長 (long), implying a cloth that extends or drapes — like a curtain. Later, it also came to mean items that "contain" records, such as notebooks and ledgers.

手帳てちょうに予定よていを書かきました。
I wrote my schedule in the notebook.

通帳つうちょうを銀行ぎんこうに持もっていきます。
I’m taking the bankbook to the bank.

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