読
read
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
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Information
Grade:2
Strokes:14
JLPT:5
Frequency:618
Vocabulary
トウ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 句読点 | クトウテン | punctuation mark |
| 句読 | クトウ | breaks and pauses (in a sentence); punctuation; way of reading (esp. kanbun) |
| 句読法 | クトウホウ | punctuation rules |
| 読点 | トウテン | comma |
| 吏読 | リトウ | Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language) |
トク
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 読書 | トクショ | reading (books) |
| 読本 | トクホン | reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook) |
| 副読本 | フクトクホン | supplementary reader |
ドク
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 愛読 | アイドク | reading with pleasure |
| 音読 | オンドク | reading aloud; reading (a kanji) by its Chinese-derived pronunciation |
| 解読 | カイドク | deciphering; decoding |
| 購読 | コウドク | buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper) |
| 読者 | ドクシャ | reader |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 音読み | おんよみ | on reading; on'yomi; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji |
| 訓読み | くんよみ | kun reading; kun'yomi; native Japanese reading of a Chinese character |
| 読み | よみ | reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight; judgment; interpretation; prediction; calculation |
| 読み書き | よみかき | reading and writing |
| 読み上げる | よみあげる | to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through |
Visually Similar Kanji
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誌
document, records
Grade 6JLPT 2
訪
call on, look up, offer sympathy, visit
Grade 6JLPT 3
詰
blame, close, packed, pressed, rebuke, reprove
Grade 8JLPT 2
詩
poem, poetry
Grade 3JLPT 1
該
above-stated, that specific, the said
Grade 8JLPT 1
請
ask, invite, solicit
Grade 8JLPT 1
諸
many, several, together, various
Grade 6JLPT 2
説
explanation, opinion, rumor, theory
Grade 4JLPT 3
記
account, narrative, scribe
Grade 2JLPT 3
証
certificate, evidence, proof
Grade 5JLPT 1