Meanings
Readings
Common Words
to read
to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
Now mostly used in idioms
to count; to estimate
Also written as ่จใ
to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
reading (books)
blasphemy; profanity; sacrilege; desecration; defilement
Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group)
Historical term
kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
Poetical term
moon
Japanese mythology
Tsukuyomi (god of the Moon)
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