抱く

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: Embrace 抱 plus inflecting く forms the verb read いだく, to harbor.
• Basic usage: Here 抱く is read いだく and centers on harboring a hope, doubt, or feeling.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Reading いだく and abstract objects
  • Contexts of physically holding a person or object may use the reading だく, so reading and object matter.