读音 讀音
读音讀音 in English
- pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
读
These are the forms of 讀, the traditional character: 读 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
音
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 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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为了研读音乐他去了义大利。
He went to Italy in order to study music.
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他去了奥地利读音乐。
He went to Austria for the purpose of studying music.