読

read

Stroke count: 14

Readings

On readingドク、トク、トウ

Kun readingよ.む、-よ.み

JLPT level: N5 Jōyō Grade 2

Meanings

readRtK

to read
to recite (e.g. a sutra)
to chant
to predict
to guess

Popular Usage

Radicals and components

Radical言speech 訁variant

Components

How it's built

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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say (言) · words (言) · keitai · mouth (口) · sell · sale · samurai · paper punch · Miss World · crown (冖) · human legs (儿)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 372

Compound words

読むよむ

to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess

reading with pleasure

音読おんどく

reading aloud; reading (a kanji) by its Chinese-derived pronunciation

解読かいどく

deciphering; decoding

購読こうどく

buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper)

読みよみ

reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight; judgment

Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group); kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri

必読ひつどく

must-read; required reading

朗読ろうどく

reading aloud; recitation

読本とくほん

reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)

音読みおんよみ

on reading; on'yomi; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji

訓読みくんよみ

kun reading; kun'yomi; native Japanese reading of a Chinese character

読み方よみかた

pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji); way of reading (out loud); interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading

秒読みびょうよみ

countdown

読み物よみもの

reading matter; reading material

積ん読つんどく

buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books; tsundoku; books bought but not read

読み書きよみかき

reading and writing

読み返すよみかえす

to reread; to read again

立ち読みたちよみ

reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)

読み取りよみとり

reading (e.g. by a scanner)

Kun Reading Examples

Gif画像ファイル形式しか読み込めません。よみこむ

I can only import GIF files.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は文学評論の本を読んでいる。

He is reading a book of literary criticism.tatoeba

彼女がその本を読み始めたと思ったらすぐに、誰かがドアをノックした。

She had hardly begun to read the book before someone knocked at the door.tatoeba

彼は彼女が入ってきたとき２時間読書をしていた。

He had been reading for two hours when she came in.tatoeba

彼は読書をし、その傍らで妻が手袋を編んでいた。

He sat reading, with his wife knitting a pair of gloves beside him.tatoeba

ほんかんと読む。

Pronounced Honkan.wiki

ぞうにんと読む。

Pronounced Zonin.wiki

Stroke Order

14 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 読

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