読

See also 读, and 讀

Translingual

Japanese stroke order

shinjitai	読
simplified	读
traditional	讀

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 讀 (賣 → 売)

Han character

読 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口土月山 (YRGBU), composition ⿰言売)

1. read, study
2. pronounce

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1165, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35580
• Dae Jaweon: page 1630, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 6, page 3973, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8AAD

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Japanese

Kanji

読 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とく (toku), とう (tō), どく (doku)
• Kun: よむ (yomu), よみ (yomi)

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Korean

Hanja

読 (hangeul 독, 두, revised dok, du, McCune-Reischauer tok, tu, Yale tok, twu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

読 (pinyin dú (du2), shéi (shei2), Wade-Giles tu², shei²)