How to say "subscriber" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 登録者とうろくしゃnounThe broadest choice: a person who has registered or signed up with a service, website, or channel. It stresses the act of signing up rather than payment.
- 愛読者あいどくしゃnounA devoted reader: someone who reads a particular magazine, newspaper, or author regularly and with affection. The nuance is loyal, fond readership rather than the transaction of subscribing.
- 購読者こうどくしゃnounThe straightforward word for someone who pays to receive a publication such as a newspaper or magazine. Choose this when 'subscriber' means a paying reader of a periodical.
- nounA loanword used mainly in technical fields such as telecommunications and computing, for a user under contract to a service. In ordinary contexts it is seldom the word you want.
- 予約者よやくしゃnounEssentially a person who makes a booking or reservation. Its 'subscriber' sense is marginal — someone reserving copies of a magazine in advance — so it is rarely the word you want.
Use 登録者 for someone signed up with a service or channel, 購読者 for a paying reader of a periodical, 愛読者 for a devoted reader, 「サブスクライバー」 in technical contexts, and 予約者 hardly ever for this sense.
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