Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N5

618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: read

Kunyomi: よ.む -よ.み

Onyomi: ドク トク トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

者(どくしゃ)   reader

書(どくしょ)   reading

解力(どっかいりょく)   reading ability

本(とくほん)   a reading primer

点(とうてん)   comma

む(よむ)   read

売新聞(よみうりしんぶん)   Yomiuri (newspaper)

立ちみする(たちよみする)   browse in a bookstore

み方(よみかた)   way of reading

み直す(よみなおす)   read something over again

Onyomi Examples

ドクショ reading (a book)

ドクシャ reader

積ん ツンドク buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read

ヒツドク must-read, required reading

ドクショ reading (a book)

トクホン reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)

トウテン comma

クトウ breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)

リト Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kunyomi Examples

よむ 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 decipher, to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading