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読む, よむ
Conjugated: 読ん...
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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読んで字のごとく, 読んで字の如く, よんでじのごとく
Expression, Adverb
literally, self-explanatorily