積ん読
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 積 | 読 |
| つ Grade: 4 |
どく Grade: 2 |
| yutōyomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 積ん讀 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 積む (tsumu, “to pile up”) + 読 (doku, “to read, reading”, on'yomi), punning on 積んどく (tsundoku), contraction of 積んでおく (tsunde oku, “to leave piled up”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it,[3] typically piled up together with other such unread books
Coordinate terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Tom Gerken (29 July 2018), “Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], BBC, retrieved 10 August 2022
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