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

读 character breakdown

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
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 读 as component

读 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 读

to decipher / to decode / to interpret
to study attentively (a book) / to delve into
to read carefully and thoroughly / intensive reading
pronunciation of a character other than the standard / lit. broken reading
intensive reading course
standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985
to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
see 行萬里路,讀萬卷書|行万里路,读万卷书[xing2 wan4 li3 lu4 , du2 wan4 juan4 shu1]
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom) / Learn as much as you can and do all you can.
computer-readable / machine-readable
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
to read a sample chapter of a book / to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis / to attend classes on a trial basis
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
word having alternative pronunciations
colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
to be worth reading a hundred times (idiom)

Sentences with 读

读 currently does not appear in any sentence.