读
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to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 言 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 讀
- Common rank
- #770
- Unicode
- U+8BFB
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
read · Heisig RSH #860
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 读
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 读书 | to read a book; to study; to attend school | |
| 有声读物 | audiobook; recording of a person reading the text of a book | |
| 读万卷书，行万里路 | (lit.) read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom); (fig.) acquire knowl… | |
| 工读生 | student who also works part-time; (old) reform-school student | |
| 读书人 | scholar; intellectual | |
| 可读性 | readability | |
| 读书机 | audio-output reading machine | |
| 读书会 | study group | |
| 读卡器 | card reader | |
| 半工半读 | part work, part study; work-study program | |
| 行万里路胜读万卷书 | to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books | |
| 复读生 | student who repeats (a course, grade etc) at school | |
| 计算机可读 | computer-readable; machine-readable | |
| 读头 | reading head (e.g. in tape deck) | |
| 工读学校 | reformatory; reform school | |
| 读心 | to read sb's mind | |
| 白读 | colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character | |
| 读法 | pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character) | |
| 文读 | literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character | |
| 读出 | to read out loud; (computing) to read (data); readout (of a scientific instrument) |