子こ守もり

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子守する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Refers to the act of looking after a baby or young child, or the person who does it. Often used in compound nouns like 子守歌 (lullaby).

子こ守もりをするto babysit / look after a child
妹いもうとの子こ守もりをすることになった。
I ended up babysitting my little sister.
〈人ひと〉に子こ守もりを頼たのむto ask someone to babysit
近きん所じょの学がく生せいに子こ守もりを頼たのんだ。
I asked a student from the neighborhood to babysit.
子こ守もりとして働はたらくto work as a babysitter
大だい学がく生せいの頃ころ、子こ守もりとして働はたらいていた。
When I was a university student, I worked as a babysitter.
子こ守もりを雇やとうto hire a babysitter
旅りょ行こう中ちゅうは子こ守もりを雇やとうことにした。
We decided to hire a babysitter while we were traveling.

保ほ育いくN1
保育 refers to professional or institutional childcare, such as at a nursery school, while 子守 is the more general, often informal act of looking after a child.
ベビーシッター
ベビーシッター is the modern loanword for a paid, often professional babysitter, whereas 子守 is a broader, more traditional term that can apply to family members or informal helpers too.
守もり
子守り is the everyday, more specific word for babysitting or a babysitter, while standalone 守り in this sense is more literary or formal.

乳母うば
乳母 specifically means a wet nurse or nanny hired to breastfeed and raise a child, while 子守 just means looking after a child without that nursing role.

人にん
When 子守 refers to the person doing the babysitting, it is counted with 人, as in 子守を二人雇う (hire two babysitters).

子こ守もりUsage81%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority in news and frequency lists.
子こ守もりUsage19%
Variant with okurigana; less common but still encountered.

Compound of 子 (child) and 守 (protect, watch over). The reading こもり is a native Japanese reading (kun'yomi).