讀

See also 读, and 読

Translingual

shinjitai	読
simplified	读
traditional	讀

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. read, study
2. pronounce

Descendants

• Simplifications: 読 读

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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Japanese

Kanji

讀 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 読)

1. 読: to read

Readings

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

Usage notes

Very rarely used. Superseded by the shinjitai form.

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Korean

Hanja

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

Compounds

吏讀 (이두, itwu or idu)

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Mandarin

Verb

讀 (traditional, Pinyin dú, simplified 读)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to read (silently)

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

讀 (độc, đọc, đậu, đặt)