讀 (dú)
to read; to study
How 讀 is written
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- 言 — speech
- Traditional
- 讀
- Simplified
- 读
讀 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- dòu
- comma; phrase marked by pause
- dú
- to read; to study; reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]
Common words using 讀
- 讀書 dúshū
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- 閱讀 yuèdú
- to read; reading
- 導讀 dǎodú
- guide (e.g. book or other printed material)
- 就讀 jiùdú
- to go to school
- 復讀 fùdú
- to study again
- 朗讀 lǎngdú
- read aloud; read loudly and clearly
- 解讀 jiědú
- to decipher; to decode
- 讀後感 dúhòugǎn
- impression of a book; opinion expressed in a book review
- 讀懂 dúdǒng
- to read and understand
- 讀書人 dúshūrén
- scholar; intellectual
- 讀物 dúwù
- reading material
- 讀者 dúzhě
- reader; CL:個|个[ge4]
讀 in a sentence
他喜歡在圖書館讀小說。
Tā xǐhuān zài túshūguǎn dú xiǎoshuō.
“He likes reading novels in the library.”
How common is 讀?
讀 is the 751st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.1% of all running text.
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