読む

Meanings

1. to read
2. to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
3. to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
4. to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
5. to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)

Part of speech: godan verb (む), transitive

Kanji

• 読

  Meanings

  read

  On reading

  ドク、トク、トウ

  Kun reading

  よ.む、-よ.み

  Strokes

  14

Example sentences

• ミルトンの作品を読んだことがありますか。

  Have you ever read Milton's works?

  Tatoeba #195029 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。

  I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.

  Tatoeba #94272 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。

  My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.

  Tatoeba #12281611 · CC BY 2.0 FR