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Japanese
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| 積ん讀 (kyūjitai)
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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。
- Kareha hon'o kaukotoga sukide, heyaniha tsundoku no honga yamanoyōni tsumareteiru.
- Sure, he enjoys buying books, but there's a big pile of them in his room, left unread.
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References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Tom Gerken (2018 July 29) “Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC, retrieved 10 August 2022