積ん読
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 積 | 読 |
| つ Grade: 4 |
どく Grade: 2 |
| yutōyomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 積ん讀 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
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
Noun
積ん読 • (tsundoku)
- (informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it,[3] typically piled up together with other such unread books
- (informal) a pile of books that are bought but left unread; piles of unread books stacked up; books purchased but not read
- 彼は本を買うことが好きで、部屋には積ん読の本が山のように積まれている。
- Kare wa hon o kau koto ga suki de, heya ni wa tsundoku no hon ga yama no yō ni tsumareteiru.
- Sure, he enjoys buying books, but there's a big pile of them in his room, left unread.
- 彼は本を買うことが好きで、部屋には積ん読の本が山のように積まれている。
Coordinate terms
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Tom Gerken (29 July 2018) “Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], BBC, retrieved 10 August 2022