Kanji1 / 14
読 kanji
read
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ドクトクトウ
Kun readings
よむ-よみ
Variant forms
讀Words with 読
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3読書Popularreading (books)
- N1購読Popularbuying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper)
- N1読者Popularreader
- N1朗読Popularreading aloud; recitation
- N1講読reading; translation
- —愛読Popularreading with pleasure
- —音読Popularreading aloud; reading (a kanji) by its Chinese-derived pronunciation
- —解読Populardeciphering; decoding
- —必読Popularmust-read; required reading
- —積ん読Popularbuying books and not reading them; stockpiling books; tsundoku; books bought but not read
- —定期購読Popularsubscription (e.g. to a magazine)
- —一読perusal; one reading; reading through (once)
- —閲読reading; perusal
- —可読readable
- —会読reading-and-discussion meeting
- —訓読kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji); reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese
- —誤読misreading; misinterpreting
- —交読reading responsively
- —査読peer review; refereeing
- —再読rereading; reading again; reading a single kanji twice (with different pronunciations) in kanbun