造詣

• 読み: ぞうけい
• ローマ字: zoukei
• 漢字の分解: 造 (zō) — create, reach; 詣 (kei) — visit (a shrine), attain
• 発音: /zo.ː.ke.i/

意味

Deep knowledge; profound expertise; scholarship. A thorough and well-developed understanding of a subject, especially in arts, literature, or scholarship.

Almost always appears in the construction 〜に造詣が深い (to have deep expertise in ~). It implies not surface-level familiarity but a cultivated understanding built over years of devoted study. Used to compliment someone's profound knowledge in a specific area — typically art, music, literature, history, or philosophy. Rarely used for scientific or technical domains, where 専門知識 (senmon chishiki) is preferred.

例文

1. 彼は中世ヨーロッパ文学に造詣が深く、原語で資料を読む。
2. 音楽に造詣の深い批評家の言葉は説得力が違う。
3. 造詣の深い先生に師事したことで、美術の見方が変わった。

使い方ガイド

場面: arts, scholarship, cultural discussion

トーン: appreciative

起源と歴史

From 造 (zō — to create, to reach) and 詣 (kei — to visit a shrine, to attain). The character 詣 implies arriving at a destination through sustained effort — used here metaphorically to mean reaching a deep level of mastery in a field.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated