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
- —購読者subscriber; reader; buyer
- —読解力reading comprehension; ability to read and understand
- —必読書must-read (book); required reading
- —失読症dyslexia
- —返読点word-order marks used to assist reading of Chinese classics
- —難読語word with difficult-to-read kanji
- —読者数number of readers (of a magazine, newspaper, etc.); readership
- —難読化obfuscation (of source code)
- —朗読会recital; recitation; public reading
- —訓読文kanbun converted into literary Japanese
- —査読者referee (of a manuscript); reviewer
- —読書灯reading light; reading lamp
- —抄読会journal club; gathering to read and discuss papers, articles, books, etc.
- —主読紙most-read newspaper (in a region)
- —見読性legibility (of a digital display)
- —三読会third reading (of a bill in the Imperial Diet)
- —暗号解読cryptanalysis
- —漢文訓読reading a classical Chinese text in Japanese
- —晴耕雨読working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits
- —読書三昧being absorbed in reading