Word Meaning 頓着

とんちゃく tonchaku

頓着 is read as とんちゃく (tonchaku) and means being concerned about or mindful of.

Meaning

English

  1. being concerned about or mindful of

Reading

Kana

とんちゃく

Romaji

tonchaku

Writing Variants

  • 頓着 とんじゃく tonjaku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 25 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 2級 Rank 151565 Priority X

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

頓着ない

とんじゃくない

indifferent

無頓着

むとんちゃく

indifferent

執着

しゅうちゃく

attachment

寝間着

ねまき

nightclothes

定着

ていちゃく

fixation

必着

ひっちゃく

must arrive

下着

したぎ

underwear

発着

はっちゃく

arrival and departure

ちゃく

counter for items or suits of clothing

先着

せんちゃく

arriving first

癒着

ゆちゃく

adhesion

上着

うわぎ

top

Example Sentences

6

かのじょはみなりにむとんちゃくだ。

She is indifferent to her appearance.

かれはこまかいことにとんちゃくしない。

He doesn't care about small details.

John is very careless about his clothes.

As is often the case with young men, he does not pay much attention to his health.

As is often the case with young people, he was indifferent to money.

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.