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読よむ

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Inflections of 読む
Common
よむ
Meaning
    1. ①
      to read
      ミルトンの作品さくひんを読よんだことがありますか。
      Have you ever read Milton's works?
    2. ②
      to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
    3. ③
      to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
      彼女かのじょの心こころの動うごきを読よむことさえできなかった。
      I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.
    4. ④
      to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
    5. ⑤
      to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
      私わたくしの頭あたまは楽譜がくふを読よむようにはよく慣ならされて居おりますが、どうも暗号あんごうを読よむには適てきしません。
      My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.
    6. ⑥
      to count; to estimate
      now mostly used in idioms
      See also: サバを読む (さばをよむ)
    7. ⑦
      to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
      also written as 訓む
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