積ん読

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
どく
Grade: 2
yutōyomi
Alternative spelling
積ん讀 (kyūjitai)

Etymology[edit]

Compound of 積む (tsumu, to pile up) +‎ (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]

()(どく) (tsundoku

  1. (informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it,[3] typically piled up together with other such unread books

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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