Word

読む

よむ
CommonJLPT N5

Meanings

  1. Godan verb · Transitive

    to read

  2. Godan verb · Transitive

    to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant

  3. Godan verb · Transitive

    to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine

  4. Godan verb · Transitive

    to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)

  5. Godan verb · Transitive

    to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)

  6. Godan verb · Transitive

    to count; to estimate

  7. Godan verb · Transitive

    to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

In Spanish

  1. leer

Other forms
讀む、訓む

Kanji in this word

Example sentences

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