kirjauksen

Kirjauksen is a Finnish noun meaning the act of recording or a recorded entry. It covers written notes, annotations, or registrations of information, events, or data, and is used across many domains to denote a trace produced by writing.

In accounting, kirjaus refers to a ledger entry, a posted transaction in a financial record. In information technology and data management, it is used for log entries or event logs that document actions, errors, and other system events. In archives and administration, kirjaus can denote a registered item or a documented record in a registry or collection. The term also appears in everyday use to describe a note or memorandum.

The word has two closely related senses: the process of recording (the act) and the recorded result (the entry). The process is often called kirjaaminen; the result is kirjaus. The genitive form kirjauksen appears in phrases such as kirjauksen säilyttäminen (retention of the record) or kirjauksen oikeellisuus (accuracy of the entry).

Etymology: the term is rooted in kirja ('book') with the nominal suffix -us, reflecting the practice of inscribing information into books, ledgers, or registries and later extending to digital records and logs.

See also: kirjaaminen, kirja, rekisteri, arkisto.