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hanko

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Japanese stamp made of wood, stone, or horn, engraved with the name of an individual, office, or institution and used instead of a signature in official transactions.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese hanko, probably alteration (taken as if han, seal, stamp + ko, child, also a noun-forming suff.) of earlier hankō, publication, printing : Japanese han, board, block such as those used in woodblock printing (from Middle Chinese paʽn´; also the source of Mandarin bàn) + Japanese kō, to go, circulate (from Middle Chinese xɦjaʽjŋ, also the source of Mandarin xíng).]

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Examples

  • Most of the buyers represent traditional "hanko" carving businesses in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • One police forensics guy said that with Hanko, they traced the hanko inks used in different banks for verifying where the hanko was used and they were worried, at the time, that they wouldn't be able to use this technique with digital signatures.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • Japanese hanko stamp system ripe for error and fraud

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • In the court sentence for this case, the guy will be reimbursed in full, because the seal of the copy hanko was different.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • After an introduction to the hanko system, she goes on to report on a recent mix-up involving hanko.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • Jitsuin is the hanko that you register with the government.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • Also, there have been some very good hanko copying technologies demonstrated on TV.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • Mari of Japan has an informative blog entry about the hanko system.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • I always forget one of these things, usually either my hanko really simple and thus easy-to-forge hand stamp which takes the place of signatures in Japan or my account book.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: September 2005 Archives 2005

  • When you do this stuff at home, you obviously don't need the hanko, and I certainly never needed anything other than ID and knowledge of my bank account to do almost any banking.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: September 2005 Archives 2005

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