おたく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おたく – see the following entries.

【お宅】 [noun] your home [noun] (rare) geek [pronoun] (personal pronoun) you Alternative spelling 御宅

【オタク】 [noun] (chiefly derogatory) geek, nerd, freak, no-lifer; one who is obsessed with something to the exclusion of such things as social interaction.

(This term, おたく (otaku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)