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LDK

Pronunciation: [e̞ɾɯ̟ dʲiː ke̞ː]

“LDK” is a Japanese word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. A house, apartment, etc. with a living room and either an eat-in kitchen or (less commonly) a kitchen and a dining room.

Etymology

Borrowed from English LDK, Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) initialism of living room + dining room + kitchen. By surface analysis, リビング (ribingu) + ダイニングキッチン (dainingu kitchin), where リビング (ribingu), itself being an ellipsis of リビングルーム (ribingu rūmu, “living room”), while ダイニング (dainingu) is an ellipsis of ダイニングルーム (dainingu rūmu, “dining room”).

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