comma / phrase marked by pause
to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]

= + : Doggy Dog finds an advertising column just inside the space station's entrance. He finds out that it's for sale: There is an price tag attached to it. He reads the price tag aloud: "woof woof woof woof!"
to read out; to read aloud / to read / to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce

讀 character breakdown

words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.

Characters with 讀 as component

讀 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 讀

to decipher / to decode / to interpret
to study attentively (a book) / to delve into
(of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
to read carefully and thoroughly / intensive reading
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
to be worth reading a hundred times (idiom)
see 行萬里路,讀萬卷書|行万里路,读万卷书[xing2 wan4 li3 lu4 , du2 wan4 juan4 shu1]
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom) / Learn as much as you can and do all you can.
computer-readable / machine-readable
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".)
to read a sample chapter of a book / to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis / to attend classes on a trial basis
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
pronunciation of a character other than the standard / lit. broken reading
intensive reading course
standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985
to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies

Sentences with 讀

讀 currently does not appear in any sentence.