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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *讀* | 讀* | *讀
to read out; to read aloud / to read / to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce
HSK 1
to read a book / to study / to attend school
HSK 1
pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
HSK 2
reader
HSK 3
to read / reading
HSK 4
to read aloud
HSK 5
to decipher / to decode / to interpret
HSK 7-9
to major (in a field) / to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
HSK 7-9
to read in silence
HSK 7-9
to read out loud to an audience / a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)
HSK 7-9
to go to school
HSK 7-9
to study attentively (a book) / to delve into
to attend school as a day student
pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character)
to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *讀* | 讀* | *讀
comma / phrase marked by pause
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas / to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
(of a student) to work part-time (while continuing one's studies) / (of a delinquent) to be reformed through work and study
reformatory / reform school
reader / an instructional book
reading head (e.g. in tape deck)
to study the Confucian classics / to read scriptures or canonical texts
reader (software)
student who also works part-time / (old) reform-school student
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)
to read newspapers
impression of a book / opinion expressed in a book review
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读. For example, has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
scholar; intellectual
to read carefully and thoroughly / intensive reading
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
stress (on a syllable)
speed reading
to read intensively
part work, part study / work-study program
extracurricular reading material
liaison (in phonetics)
to study (in an academic program); to pursue (a degree)
read-only (computing)
pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used) / punctuation / periods and commas / sentences and phrases
variant pronunciation (when the same character has more than one reading)
enjoyable to read; worth reading; readable / able to be read; legible; readable
to read (a draft) / to review
to be worth reading a hundred times (idiom)
Reader's Digest
to attend school on a temporary basis
to read through
to mispronounce
(courteous) to read respectfully
reading / data from meter
(polite) to read (sth)
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读. For example, has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
reading comprehension
to read aloud
to attend boarding school
(language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist / extensive reading
to read extensively and thoroughly / nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好|爱好 rather than the usual [hao3]
to lip-read / lipreading
to read a score / to read music
to read sb's mind
to read and interpret ancient texts / to decipher
to read and understand
alexia
to attend graduate school
guide (e.g. book or other printed material)
to be studying (at a school or research institute)
card reader
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
audiobook / recording of a person reading the text of a book
pronunciation of a character other than the standard / lit. broken reading
dyslexia
for the benefit of the reader
(computing) read-only
phonics
legible / readable
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985
to read mindfully; to read with full engagement
(of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
study group
lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience
to read a sample chapter of a book / to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis / to attend classes on a trial basis
literacy
to read again / to review (a lesson etc)
EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory)
readability
student who repeats (a course, grade etc) at school
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
to pronounce a word after mentally processing its spelling / (phonics) blending
to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it
to read cursorily / to skim through
word having alternative pronunciations
intensive reading course
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
computer-readable / machine-readable
dyslexia

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