愛読

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★ 3/5 neutral あいどくaidoku
読み あいどく
ローマ字 aidoku
漢字の分解 愛 (ai) — love, affection | 読 (doku) — to read
発音 /a.i.do.kɯ/

意味

Favourite reading; reading with great pleasure. The act of reading something one loves, often repeatedly.

A noun and suru-verb (愛読する) expressing devoted, pleasurable reading. Commonly appears in compounds: 愛読書 (a favourite book) and 愛読者 (a devoted reader). It implies not merely reading for information but savouring the text — re-reading, annotating, or recommending it to others. Frequently used in biographical essays and literary introductions.

例文

  1. 彼は夏目漱石の作品を愛読し、何度も繰り返し読んでいた。
  2. 彼女の愛読書は、子供の頃から変わらず同じ詩集だという。
  3. そのエッセイ集は多くの読書家に愛読され、長く版を重ねた。

使い方ガイド

場面: literary discussion, book reviews, biographies, memoir writing

トーン: warm

起源と歴史

Compound of 愛 (ai) meaning 'love, affection' and 読 (doku) meaning 'to read'. The pairing suggests reading motivated by genuine fondness, in contrast to obligatory or professional reading.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated

関連フレーズ

仮名 Kana; the Japanese phonetic syllabary comprising hiragana and katakana, developed from simplified Chinese characters. 侘び寂び Wabi-sabi; a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, incompleteness, and transience. An appreciation for the humble, weathered, and irregular. 俳句 Haiku; a traditional Japanese poem of 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5), typically evoking nature, a season, and a single vivid moment. 入門 Introduction; a primer or entry into a field of study. Also: the formal act of becoming a disciple under a master in a traditional art. 和歌 Waka; traditional Japanese poetry, particularly the tanka form with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure. The classical poetic tradition of Japan as distinguished from Chinese verse. 和紙 Washi; traditional handmade Japanese paper crafted from plant fibres such as kozo (mulberry). A material central to Japanese literary, artistic, and cultural heritage. 四字熟語 A four-character idiom; a compound of four kanji forming a fixed idiomatic expression, often of Chinese origin. Known in English as yojijukugo. 常用漢字 Jōyō kanji; the official list of commonly used Chinese characters in contemporary Japanese.
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