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
- —専任読手designated reader (comp. karuta); designated reciter; highest reader qualification
- —漢文訓読文kanbun converted into literary Japanese
- —読者モデルreader model; amateur model who appears in fashion magazines
- —読書感想文book report
- —既読スルーreading but not responding to a text message (in a chat application); leaving (someone) on read
- —未読スルーignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in online chatting)
- —判読しがたいillegible; indecipherable
- —日本読書学会Japan Reading Association; JRA
- —一読の価値があるto be worth reading
- —読書百遍意自ずから通ずrepeated reading makes the meaning clear; read a difficult book a hundred times
- —濫読indiscriminate reading; unsystematic reading; desultory reading; reading at random
- —つん読buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books; tsundoku; books bought but not read
- —熟読含味reading carefully with appreciation
- —一読三歎a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration
- —判読し難いillegible; indecipherable
- —一読の価値が有るto be worth reading