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

(of a computer etc) to read (data)
reading material
to read out loud / (computing) to read (data) / readout (of a scientific instrument)
stress (on a syllable)
to read newspapers
scholar / intellectual
impression of a book / opinion expressed in a book review
to read through
reading / pronunciation (of a Chinese character)
reader / an instructional book
to attend school as a day student
to read and interpret ancient texts / to decipher
to mispronounce
speed reading
liaison (in phonetics)

Sentences with 读

读 currently does not appear in any sentence.