comma / phrase marked by pause
to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]

= + : Doggy Dog finds an advertising column just inside the space station's entrance. He finds out that it's for sale: There is an price tag attached to it. He reads the price tag aloud: "woof woof woof woof!"
to read out; to read aloud / to read / to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce

讀 character breakdown

words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.

Characters with 讀 as component

讀 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 讀

to read out loud to an audience / a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)
to go to school
guide (e.g. book or other printed material)
part work, part study / work-study program
to read (a draft) / to review
pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used) / punctuation / periods and commas / sentences and phrases
read-only (computing)
for the benefit of the reader
enjoyable to read; worth reading; readable / able to be read; legible; readable
to lip-read / lipreading
read-only (computing)
to attend boarding school
to attend school on a temporary basis
to read again / to review (a lesson etc)
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc) / to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)

Sentences with 讀

讀 currently does not appear in any sentence.