読よむ

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

read

General act of reading text, books, or written material.

• 毎まい朝あさ、新しん聞ぶんを読よむ。

  I read the newspaper every morning.

• この本ほんを読よんだことがありますか。

  Have you ever read this book?

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

recite; chant

Used for reciting or chanting aloud, especially sutras or poetry.

• お坊ぼうさんがお経きょうを読よむ。

  The monk chants a sutra.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

predict; guess; read (thoughts)

Figurative use: to read a situation, someone's mind, or the future; to divine or foresee.

• 彼かれの表ひょう情じょうから気き持もちを読よむのは難むずかしい。

  It's hard to read his feelings from his expression.

• 占うらない師しが手て相そうを読よんでくれた。

  A fortune-teller read my palm.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

pronounce; read (a kanji)

To pronounce or read a character aloud, especially kanji.

• この漢かん字じは何なんと読よむのですか。

  How do you read this kanji?

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

read (a meter, graph, music); tell (the time); decipher

To interpret or read non-textual information: meters, graphs, music scores, clocks, or codes.

• 検けん針しん員いんがガスメーターを読よんだ。

  The meter reader read the gas meter.

• 彼かれは楽がく譜ふを読よむのが速はやい。

  He is quick at reading sheet music.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

count; estimate

Now mostly used in idioms, e.g. サバを読む (to fudge numbers).

See also: サバを読む

• 「サバを読よむ」という表ひょう現げんで、数かずをごまかす意い味みになる。

  In the expression サバを読む, it means to fudge the numbers.

godan verb (-mu), transitive verb

read with kun'yomi

To read a kanji using its native Japanese reading (kun'yomi). Also written as 訓む.

• 「山やま」を「やま」と読よむのは訓くん読よみです。

  Reading 山 as やま is the kun'yomi.