営む

• 読み: いとなむ
• ローマ字: itonamu
• 漢字の分解: 営 (ei/itona) — operate, run, manage
• 発音: /i.to.na.mɯ/

意味

To run a business; to operate; to conduct. Managing an ongoing enterprise or carrying on a way of life.

A Group 1 (godan) transitive verb used for running businesses, conducting ceremonies, or leading a lifestyle. More literary than 経営する for business contexts. Also used poetically for living a life, as in 生活を営む. Common in descriptions of family-run shops and traditional livelihoods.

例文

1. 祖父は小さな書店を営んでいる。
2. 静かな田舎で穏やかな生活を営みたい。
3. 家族で代々この旅館を営んできた。

使い方ガイド

場面: business, lifestyle, tradition

トーン: steady

起源と歴史

The kanji 営 combines 呂 (connected rooms) and 火 (fire), evoking the image of maintaining fires in connected rooms of an encampment or establishment. Extended from military camps to any managed operation.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal