Illustration: On the balcony of a Japanese apartment, a child gazes steadily up at the moon with a quiet, determined smile. A well-used telescope stands beside them, and their open bedroom door reveals a carefully kept model rocket, an astronaut figurine, and an uncaptioned photograph of a lunar landscape.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

抱いだく

idaku

to hold, to harbor a feeling

Usually takes a thought or feeling as its object. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれは私わたしに恨うらみを抱いだいた。
He bore a grudge against me.
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その経験けいけんで彼女かのじょは民主党みんしゅとうに対たいして好感こうかんを抱いだくようになった。
The experience prejudiced her in favor of the Democratic Party.
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彼かれは大望たいぼうを抱いだいていた。
He had ambition.
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Kanji in 抱

抱embrace; hugOnホウKunだく・いだく・かかえる

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