読 (yomu) Kanji Meaning: "Read" | Learn Kanji with Pictures

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Drawing: Words on the page, spoken out from a book: read.

読 means read

Words on the page, spoken out from a book: read.

On'yomi

  • ドクdoku
  • トクtoku
  • トウtou

Kun'yomi

  • よ(む)yomu
  • よ(み)yomi

How it's built

  • 言words
  • 売sell

Common words

  • 読者どくしゃreader
  • 読書どくしょreading (books)
  • 音読おんどくreading aloud
  • 読みよみreading

Through history

  1. Seal script form of 讀Seal
  2. Today
Written 讀 before Japan's postwar reform.

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