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Trad. 讀
- to read out; to read aloud
- to read
- to attend (school); to study (a subject in school)
- to pronounce
Trad. 讀秒
- to count down the remaining seconds (e.g. in games, rocket launches, New Year's Eve)
- (of a boxing referee) to administer the count following a knock-down, starting from "one"
Trad. 判讀
- to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc)
- to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)
Trad. 讀經
- to study the Confucian classics
- to read scriptures or canonical texts
Trad. 陪讀
- to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas
- to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
Trad. 讀音
- pronunciation
- literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Trad. 統讀
- standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985
Trad. 白讀
- colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Trad. 音讀
- 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".)
Trad. 耕讀
- to be both a farmer and a scholar
- to work the land and also undertake academic studies
Trad. 工讀
- (of a student) to work part-time (while continuing one's studies)
- (of a delinquent) to be reformed through work and study
Trad. 文讀
- literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
Trad. 複讀
- (of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
Trad. 試讀
- to read a sample chapter of a book
- to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis
- to attend classes on a trial basis
Trad. 宣讀
- to read out loud to an audience
- a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)
Trad. 復讀
- to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
Trad. 句讀
- pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)
- punctuation
- periods and commas
- sentences and phrases
Trad. 泛讀
- (language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist
- extensive reading
Trad. 異讀
- variant pronunciation (when the same character has more than one reading)
Trad. 可讀
- enjoyable to read; worth reading; readable
- able to be read; legible; readable
Trad. 破讀
- pronunciation of a character other than the standard
- lit. broken reading
Trad. 攻讀
- to major (in a field)
- to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
Trad. 拼讀
- to pronounce a word after mentally processing its spelling
- (phonics) blending
Trad. 訓讀
- 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".)
Trad. 讀出
- to read out loud
- (computing) to read (data)
- readout (of a scientific instrument)
Trad. 讀破
- to read extensively and thoroughly
- nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好|爱好[ai4 hao4] rather than the usual [hao3]
Trad. 工讀生
- student who also works part-time
- (old) reform-school student
Trad. 復讀生
- student who repeats (a course, grade etc) at school
Trad. 讀後感
- impression of a book
- opinion expressed in a book review
Trad. 讀破句
- incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point
Trad. 讀賣新聞
- Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
Trad. 聽說讀寫
- listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
Trad. 百讀不厭
- to be worth reading a hundred times (idiom)
Trad. 半工半讀
- part work, part study
- work-study program
Trad. 有聲讀物
- audiobook
- recording of a person reading the text of a book
Trad. 課外讀物
- extracurricular reading material
Trad. 折節讀書
- to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
Trad. 閱讀裝置
- electronic reader (e.g. for barcodes, RFID tags etc)
Trad. 計算機可讀
- computer-readable
- machine-readable
Trad. 讀萬卷書，行萬里路
- lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom)
- fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience
Trad. 行萬里路勝讀萬卷書
- to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books