to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]
读
=
卖
+
讠
:
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!"
言
=
亠
+
二
+
口
:
The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.
言
=
亠
+
二
+
口
:
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
卖
=
十
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㇖
+
头
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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.
to read extensively and thoroughly / nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好|爱好[ai4 hao4] rather than the usual [hao3]