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 read in silence
to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas / to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
electronic reader (e.g. for barcodes, RFID tags etc)
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
to read intensively

Sentences with 讀

讀 currently does not appear in any sentence.