The Japanese dictionary for learners.

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詠む よむ

  1. to compose (a Japanese poem); to use as the theme of a poem; to write
  2. to chant; to intone; to recite (e.g. a poem)

一句詠む いっくよむ

  1. to compose a poem (esp. haiku)

読む よむ N5

  1. to read
  2. to chant; to recite (e.g. a sutra)
  3. to divine; to forecast; to guess; to predict; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart)
  4. to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
  5. to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
  6. to count; to estimate
  7. to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.