读讀 in English
- comma / phrase marked by pause
- to read out / to read aloud / to read / to attend (school) / to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce
Measure word
- 次 cì next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard... attested in use
Stroke order
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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.
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Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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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.
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一些人通过阅读来放松。
Some people relax by reading.
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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.
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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.
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为什么你想到外国读书？
Why do you want to study abroad?
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为什么您想到外国读书？
Why do you want to study abroad?
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他们正在阅读。
They're reading.
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他厌倦了读书。
He got tired of reading.