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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。
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読む, よむ
Conjugated: 読み
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to read
See さばを読む, now mostly used in idioms
2. to count
3. to guess, to predict, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine
いつも本を読んでいるうちに眠ってしまう。
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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。
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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)
我々の先祖は星の読み方を知っていた。
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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。
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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, 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
先読み, さきよみ
Takes suru
1. foreseeing, anticipating, predicting the future
Computer terminology
2. lookahead
3. prefetching
4. reading ahead
棒読み, ぼうよみ
Takes suru
1. reading in a monotone
2. reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
読み解く, よみとく
Godan verb, See 読解
1. to read and understand, to subject to close analysis, to read deeply, to read carefully (esp. a difficult text)
See 解読
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 express (e.g. emotion in poetry)
3. to read (extra meaning) into (something)
Computer terminology
4. to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.), to read (data into a system), to load
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。
読み破る, よみやぶる
Godan verb, Transitive
to read through (difficult passage or particularly long book)