打ち込む

• 読み: うちこむ
• ローマ字: uchikomu
• 漢字の分解: 打 (da/u) — strike, hit; 込 (ko) — crowded, enter deeply
• 発音: /ɯ.tɕi.ko.mɯ/

意味

To drive in; to hammer in. Also means to throw oneself into something; to devote oneself to.

A Group 1 (godan) transitive verb with both physical and figurative uses. Physically, it means to hammer or drive something in (nails, stakes). Figuratively, 打ち込む means to immerse oneself deeply in an activity — studying, sports, or hobbies. Also used in computing for entering data. Takes に to mark what one devotes oneself to.

例文

1. 壁に釘を打ち込んで絵を飾った。
2. 彼は大学時代にサッカーに打ち込んでいた。
3. パソコンにデータを打ち込む作業が続いた。

使い方ガイド

場面: hobbies, work, construction

トーン: energetic

起源と歴史

Compound of 打つ (to strike, hit) and 込む (to go into deeply). Together they express the force of driving something inward, extended to mean pouring energy into an endeavour.

文化的背景

時代: Medieval

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal