戸籍

Reading

Kana: こせき

Romaji: koseki

Definitions

noun

1

family register

2

census

Kanji

戸

Readings: コ、 と

Meanings: door, counter for houses, door radical (no. 63)

籍

Reading: セキ

Meanings: enroll, domiciliary register, membership

Example Sentences

彼女(かのじょ)はまだ夫(おっと)の戸籍(こせき)に入(はい)っていない。

➥She has not yet had her name entered in her husband's family.

昨日(きのう)、ひょんなことで父親(ちちおや)の戸籍(こせき)抄本(しょうほん)のコピーを見(み)てしまいました。

➥Yesterday I stumbled across a copy of my father's family register.

戸籍上(こせきじょう)の縁(えん)は切(き)れても、昔日(せきじつ)の絆(きずな)はそのままだ。

➥Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.

これはおそらく戸籍上(こせきじょう)の出生(しゅっしょう)年月日(ねんがっぴ)を調(しら)べた上(うえ)で修正(しゅうせい)したのではないかと思(おも)います。

➥I believe this may be a correction after investigation of his date of birth in the family register.