お宅

Japanese

Compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix, kun'yomi) +‎ 宅 (taku, “home”, on'yomi).^[1]^[2]

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お宅(たく) • (otaku)

The slang おたく or オタク (“geek”) is normally written in kana, and rarely in this kanji form.

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN