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讀
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to read
Examples
ミルトンの作品を読んだことがありますか。
Have you ever read Milton's works?
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to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
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to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
Examples
彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。
I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.
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to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
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to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
Examples
私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。
My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.
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Now mostly used in idioms
to count; to estimate
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Also written as 訓む
to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
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reading (books)
Examples
読書の暇がない。
I have no leisure for reading.
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blasphemy; profanity; sacrilege; desecration; defilement
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Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group)
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Historical term
kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper); yomiuri
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Poetical term
moon
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Japanese mythology
Tsukuyomi (god of the Moon)