Word Meaning 頓着
頓着 is read as とんちゃく (tonchaku) and means being concerned about or mindful of.
Meaning
English
- 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
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Related Vocabulary
Max. 12Example Sentences
6彼女は身なりに無頓着だ。
かのじょはみなりにむとんちゃくだ。
She is indifferent to her appearance.
彼は細かいことに頓着しない。
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.
ジョンは全く服装に無頓着だ。
John is very careless about his clothes.
若い男性にはありがちだが、彼は健康に無頓着だ。
As is often the case with young men, he does not pay much attention to his health.
若い人によくあることだが、彼も金銭に無頓着であった。
As is often the case with young people, he was indifferent to money.
長吉は人間というものは年を取ると、若い時分に経験した若いものしか知らない煩悶不安をばけろりと忘れてしまって、次の時代に生れて来る若いものの身の上を極めて無頓着に訓戒批評する事のできる便利な性質を持っているものだ、年を取ったものと若いものの間には到底一致されない懸隔のある事をつくづく感じた。
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.