Search a Japanese or English word using kanji, kana or romaji:
読み, よみ
1. reading
See 訓・くん・1, also written 訓み
2. reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading)
3. reading (e.g. of a situation), insight, judgment, interpretation, prediction, calculation
この厚い本は１週間では読み終えられない。
See more > common N3
読む, よむ
Conjugated: 読み
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read
2. to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant
3. to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine
4. to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji)
5. to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time)
彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。
See more > common N5
読み上げる, 読上げる, よみあげる
Ichidan verb, Transitive
1. to read out, to read aloud, to call out
2. to finish reading, to read through
私は彼らに向かってそれを読み上げる以外に仕方がなかった。
See more > common N1
読み取る, 読みとる, 読取る, よみとる
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read and understand, to take in
2. to sense from external cues, to read (someone's) mind
3. to read (calibration, tape, etc.), to scan (bar code), to read (out)
言外の意味を読み取るならば、この手紙はお金の無心です。
読み方, よみかた
1. pronunciation, reading (e.g. of a kanji)
2. way of reading (out loud)
3. interpretation (e.g. of a text), reading
我々の先祖は星の読み方を知っていた。
See more > common
読み返す, 読みかえす, 読返す, よみかえす
Godan verb, Transitive
to reread, to read again
彼女はその手紙を何度も何度も読み返した。
See more > common
読みきる, 読み切る, よみきる
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to finish reading, to read through
2. to figure out, to fully anticipate
票読み, ひょうよみ
Takes suru, Intransitive
1. estimation of votes (in an election)
2. announcing the number of votes cast (for each candidate)
読み手, 読手, よみて
1. reader (person)
See 取り手・3
2. person who reads the cards (in karuta games)
See 詠み手・よみて, also written as 詠み手
3. composer (of a poem)
素読み, 素読, すよみ, そよみ
Takes suru, Transitive, See 素読・そどく
1. reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it
2. reading a second draft without checking it against the original
縦読み, たてよみ
Takes suru, Transitive
reading the first character of each line of a horizontally written text (to reveal a hidden word or message), reading acrostically
先読み, さきよみ
Takes suru
1. foreseeing, anticipating, predicting the future, to foresee, to anticipate
Computer terminology
2. lookahead
3. prefetching
4. reading ahead
棒読み, ぼうよみ
Takes suru, Transitive
1. reading in a monotone, stiff delivery, wooden delivery
2. reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
読み解く, よみとく
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read and understand, to interpret (e.g. a difficult text), to read deeply, to read carefully, to analyze
2. to decipher, to decode
読み込む, 読みこむ, 読込む, よみこむ
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read thoroughly, to read repeatedly
2. to read (extra meaning) into (something)
3. to take (future changes) into consideration
Computer terminology
4. to load (data), to read, to fetch (e.g. a CPU instruction)
ページが読み込まれたら更新情報をページ内に流し込む prototype.js
読み出す, よみだす
Godan verb, Computer terminology
to read out (e.g. data from a computer or process), to retrieve
部屋に入るとすぐに彼女は手紙を読み出した。