读
dúTraditional: 讀
#1424 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to read, to study (at school)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the speech radical 讠 (yán, words) for the act of voicing and 卖 (mài) marking the sound, hence to read aloud.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (yán, speech) + 卖 (mài, phonetic)
Stroke order
读
Examples
。
He likes to read novels.
句。
Please read this sentence aloud.
京。
She studies at university in Beijing.
。
I read for a while every evening.
？
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读 (dú) means to read, especially to read aloud, and by extension to study at school. It pairs naturally with 书 in 读书, which covers both reading and being a student.
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