Japanese word
読む
よむ
In your course · Chapter 11
- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 481 in the course corpus
Meanings
- read (plain)
- to read
- to recite (e.g. a sutra)
- to chant
- to predict
- to guess
- to forecast
- to read (someone's thoughts)
- to see (e.g. into someone's heart)
- to divine
- to pronounce
- to read (e.g. a kanji)
- to decipher
- to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.)
- to tell (the time)
- to count
- to estimate
- to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 読
- On reading:
- トウ、トク、ドク
- Kun reading:
- -よ.み、よ.む
- Meanings:
- read
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))