读

读
讀
dòu = d + ou4
comma / phrase marked by pause
读
讀
dú = du + Ø2
to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]
读 = 卖 + 讠 : 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!"
读
讀
dú = du + Ø2
to read out; to read aloud / to read / to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce

读 character breakdown

讠
訁
yán = y + an2
"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).
卖
賣
mài = m + ai4
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt
卖 = 十 + ㇖ + 头 : 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

阅
閱
读
讀
to read / reading
读
讀
数
數
reading / data from meter
诵
誦
读
讀
to read aloud
读
讀
音
音
pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
阅
閱
读
讀
器
器
reader (software)
默
默
读
讀
to read in silence
阅
閱
读
讀
障
障
碍
礙
dyslexia
音
音
读
讀
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
饱
飽
读
讀
to read intensively
阅
閱
读
讀
装
裝
置
置
electronic reader (e.g. for barcodes, RFID tags etc)

Sentences with 读

读 currently does not appear in any sentence.