verb (godan)よむ · yomu
Englishto read
- ミルトンの作品を読んだことがありますか。Have you ever read Milton's works?
Englishto recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
Englishto predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts)
- 彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.
Englishto pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
Englishto decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
- 私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.
Englishto count; to estimate
Englishto read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
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