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It is understood that WeChat, QQ, Weibo, Douyin, Baidu, Jinri Toutiao, Zhihu, Douban and other social software and platforms have recently changed the wrong “account number” to “account number”.
In April last year, media reports disclosed that there were many expressions in the user login pages, user agreements, privacy policies, etc. “Account number” is used here. According to the Changjiang Daily, many experts said in interviews that “account number” is an old usage, and now the correct expression is “account number”.
It is understood that in the seventh edition of “Modern Chinese Dictionary”, there is only “account number” but no “account number”.
“Account” has two interpretations: one refers to “a shelter made of cloth, yarn or silk, etc.”, such as “mosquito net” and “camp tent”; the other is the same as “account”.
According to experts, the ancients often recorded accounts on cloth and hung them up for preservation, so they called daily accounts “accounts”.
In ancient times, Bei used to be currency, so the “account” next to the word Bei is related to coins, and only related to money.
Therefore, “account number” is the correct usage, and “account number” is considered to be an incorrect usage.
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