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How do you read 憧憬 in Japanese?
A heart drawn toward another world.
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A strong attraction to an ideal person or a distant world. It concerns longing or admiration, and has more than one accepted reading.
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heart radical next to 童
heart radical next to 景
two kanji with heart radicals meaning longing
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Both characters have the heart radical on the left, a common clue in emotion-related kanji. Compare 童 and 景 on the right to tell the characters apart.
憧15 strokes / radical: 心 (heart)
憬15 strokes / radical: 心 (heart)
Stroke counts and radicals follow the Japanese dictionary Kanjipedia; other dictionaries may differ.
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The answer is
しょうけい
shōkei / dōkei
憧憬
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English translationLonging / admiration
Longing for or admiring someone or something. It can express admiration for a person or a yearning to visit an unfamiliar place.
See it in a sentence
旅の本を開くたび、遠い国への憧憬がふくらんだ。Each time I opened the travel book, my longing for distant countries grew.
A way to remember
The dictionary’s headword reading is shōkei. Dōkei is also an accepted customary reading. Either answer is correct here.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 憧憬
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Using 憧憬
海への憧憬 or 作家への憧憬 identifies the object of longing. Picture someone drawn toward a place or way of life beyond their present experience.
例：古い天体写真を眺め、少年は宇宙への憧憬を深めた。
Looking at old astronomical photographs, the boy felt his longing for space grow.
Reading and meaning in context
しょうけい and the established variant どうけい refer to the same word here. Two accepted readings do not imply two different meanings.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 憧憬
Explanation checked on 2026-10-23. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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