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流水賬

简流水账 · 繁流水賬

Mandarin · pinyin liú shuǐ zhàng

day-to-day account
current account

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流: liú · flow, circulate, drift; class
水: shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice
賬: Look up this written character
账: zhàng · accounts; bill, debt; credit

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2–3–4 · liu2 shui3 zhang4

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noun

(finance, accounting) day-to-day accounts; daybook (account book that records every item by chronological order, not sorted by category)
(figurative, derogatory) mechanical account (a style of writing or narration that merely records chronologically without analysis or reflection)

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