讀

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Japanese 2.1 Kanji 2.1.1 Readings 2.1.2 Usage notes 3 Korean 3.1 Hanja 3.1.1 Compounds 4 Mandarin 4.1 Verb 4.1.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

shinjitai	読
simplified	读
traditional	讀

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 言 (“‘say’”) + phonetic 賣

[edit] Han character

讀 (radical 149 言+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜口土田金 (YRGWC), four-corner 0468₆)

1. read, study
2. pronounce

[edit] Descendants

• Simplifications: 読 读

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1185, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36088
• Dae Jaweon: page 1649, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4029, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8B80

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

讀

[edit] Readings

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

• shinjitai: 読

[edit] Usage notes

Non-Jōyō. Rarely used.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

[edit] Compounds

吏讀 (이두, itwu or idu)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Verb

讀 (traditional, Pinyin dú, simplified 读)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to read (silently)

[edit] Compounds

讀本 讀後感 讀經 讀破 讀破句 讀書 讀書破萬卷

讀書人 讀數 讀死書 讀物 讀音 讀者