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
- —読了finishing reading
- —読会reading (of a bill)
- —読図reading a map
- —読後after reading a book
- —読過finishing reading; skimming (over)
- —速読speed reading
- —訳読oral translation; reading and translating
- —素読reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it
- —耽読absorption in reading
- —直読reading (Chinese) without syntactical rearrangement into Japanese
- —漫読browsing
- —乱読indiscriminate reading; unsystematic reading; desultory reading; reading at random
- —既読already read
- —読話lip reading (esp. in context of deaf people); lipreading; speech reading; speechreading
- —読影interpretation of radiograms; radiographic image interpretation
- —読モreader model; amateur model who appears in fashion magazines
- —読譜reading music; reading a score
- —試読reading on a trial basis (e.g. a newspaper); trying out (a newspaper, magazine, etc.); preparatory reading
- —遅読slow reading
- —完読finishing reading; reading to the end