in English

dòu
comma / phrase marked by pause
verb HSK 1
to read out / to read aloud / to read / to attend (school) / to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce

Measure word

  • next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard... attested in use

Stroke order

Le caractère 读 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 读 Show the animation
Le caractère 讀 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 讀, the traditional character: 读 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • Mick等待约会的时候靠读杂志打发时间。

    Mick killed time by reading a magazine while waiting for his date.

  • 一些人通过阅读来放松。

    Some people relax by reading.

  • 不是因为读者对某本书不感兴趣,这本书就肯定是有问题的了。

    Just because a certain book does not interest readers does not mean that the fault lies in the book.

  • 世界就像一本书,不旅游的人只读了一页。

    The world is like a book, and those who don't travel read only one page.

  • 为什么你想到外国读书?

    Why do you want to study abroad?

  • 为什么您想到外国读书?

    Why do you want to study abroad?

  • 他们正在阅读。

    They're reading.

  • 他厌倦了读书。

    He got tired of reading.

All example sentences with 读

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