{"id":1922,"date":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"interesting-japanese-tsundoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/interesting-japanese-tsundoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Japanese &#8211; Tsundoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">Here&#8217;s one for the readers among our Japanese language students. Trust Japanese to have a slang word for a concept every avid reader understands very very well! That word is \u7a4d\u8aad (\u3064\u3093\u3069\u304f &#8211; tsundoku).<\/p>\n<p>The word is a kind of amalgamated pun.<\/p>\n<p>To break it down, it consists of:<\/p>\n<p>\u7a4d\u3093\u3067\u304a\u304f (\u3064\u3093\u3067\u304a\u304f- to pile up; to put aside for later)<br \/>\u8aad\u3080 (\u3088\u3080 &#8211; to read)<\/p>\n<p>\u8aad, in this case, is pronounced &#8220;doku&#8221; (as it is in \u8aad\u66f8).<\/p>\n<p>And the \u3067\u304a\u304f in \u7a4d\u3093\u3067\u304a\u304f gets shortened to \u3069\u304f (\u8aad), and forms \u7a4d\u8aad (\u3064\u3093\u3069\u304f).<\/p>\n<p>But what does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the act of buying books with the intention of reading them, but eventually letting them pile up on shelves\/nightstands\/etc unread. I know I&#8217;m guilty of that!<\/p>\n<p>There are also some other interesting words that have come into being using \u7a4d\u3080&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u7a4d\u307f\u672c (\u3064\u307f\u307c\u3093 &#8211; tsumibon) combines \u7a4d\u3080 and \u672c (\u307b\u3093 &#8211; book) to make&#8230;<br \/>You guessed it&#8230;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20131009-books.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"20131009-books.jpg\" title=\"20131009-books.jpg\"><br \/>The pile of books itself!<\/p>\n<p>\u7a4d\u3080 and \u30b2\u30fc\u30e0 become \u7a4d\u307f\u30b2\u30fc&#8230;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20131009-games.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"20131009-games.jpg\" title=\"20131009-games.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Japanese can be a difficult language to learn, but sometimes you come across word play like this that just makes it so much fun!<\/p>\n<p>*Images are from Google and copyright belongs to their respective owners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Here&#8217;s one for the readers among our Japanese language students. Trust Japanese to have a slang word for a concept every avid reader understands very very well! That word is \u7a4d\u8aad (\u3064\u3093\u3069\u304f &#8211; tsundoku). The word is a kind of amalgamated pun. To break it down, it consists of: \u7a4d\u3093\u3067\u304a\u304f (\u3064\u3093\u3067\u304a\u304f- to pile up;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Genki Japanese and Culture School - Interesting Japanese - Tsundoku<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"News and commentary from GenkiJACS, a Japanese language school in Fukuoka, Japan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/interesting-japanese-tsundoku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genki Japanese and Culture School - Interesting Japanese - Tsundoku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News and commentary from GenkiJACS, a Japanese language school in Fukuoka, Japan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/interesting-japanese-tsundoku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GenkiJACS Japanese School\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/genkijacs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-10-09T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20131009-books.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.genkijacs.com\\\/blog\\\/interesting-japanese-tsundoku\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.genkijacs.com\\\/blog\\\/interesting-japanese-tsundoku\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Interesting Japanese &#8211; 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