音おん読どく

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

音読する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	音おん読どくする	音おん読どくしない
Polite	音おん読どくします	音おん読どくしません
Past polite	音おん読どくしました	音おん読どくしませんでした
Past	音おん読どくした	音おん読どくしなかった
Te-form	音おん読どくして	音おん読どくしないで
Desire	音おん読どくしたい	音おん読どくしたくない
Potential	音おん読どくできる	音おん読どくできない
Passive	音おん読どくされる	音おん読どくされない
Causative	音おん読どくさせる	音おん読どくさせない
Causative passive	音おん読どくさせられる	音おん読どくさせられない
Volitional	音おん読どくしよう
Polite volitional	音おん読どくしましょう
Imperative	音おん読どくしろ	音おん読どくするな
Conditional	音おん読どくすれば	音おん読どくしなければ
Tara conditional	音おん読どくしたら	音おん読どくしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

reading aloud; oral reading

The act of reading text out loud, often contrasted with silent reading (黙読). Common in educational contexts.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉に〈物もの〉を音おん読どくさせるto have someone read something aloud
先せん生せいが生せい徒とに教きょう科か書しょを音おん読どくさせた。
The teacher had the students read the textbook aloud.
〈人ひと〉は音おん読どくが得とく意いだto be good at reading aloud
彼かの女じょは音おん読どくが得とく意いで、はっきりした発はつ音おんで読よめる。
She's good at reading aloud and can pronounce words clearly.

Kanji

音sound, noise
読read

Related words

朗ろう読どくN1sense 1
朗読 refers to expressive, performative reading aloud (e.g. reciting a poem or story), while 音読 is the plainer act of reading text out loud, often for practice.
音おん読よみN1sense 2
音読み is the more common everyday term for the Sino-Japanese reading of a kanji, while 音読 is a slightly more formal alternative with the same meaning.
読よみ上あげ
音読 usually refers to reading text aloud for language practice or pronunciation drills, whereas 読み上げ refers to reading something aloud so that others can hear it, as in announcements or automated speech.

Opposites

黙もく読どく sense 1
音読 means reading text out loud, while 黙読 means reading silently to oneself.
訓くん読よみN1sense 2
音読 (in its kanji-reading sense) refers to the Chinese-derived on'yomi reading, while 訓読み is the native Japanese kun'yomi reading of the same kanji.

Don't confuse with

音おん読よみN1
音読み refers to a kanji's Chinese-derived pronunciation, whereas 音読 means reading a text aloud; the words look and sound similar but mean different things.

Etymology

Compound of 音 (on, 'sound') and 読 (doku, 'reading'). The term has been used in Japanese education to refer to both reading aloud and the Sino-Japanese reading of characters.