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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

サバを読む さばをよむ

  1. to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age; to manipulate figures to one's advantage

むさぼり読む むさぼりよむ

  1. to read avidly

再び読む ふたたびよむ

  1. to read again; to reread

空で読む そらでよむ

  1. to recite from memory

門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ

  1. a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught; you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

空気を読む くうきをよむ

  1. to read the room; to read the situation; to sense the mood

行間を読む ぎょうかんをよむ

  1. to read between the lines

鼻毛を読む はなげをよむ

  1. to lead (a man) around by the nose

心を読む こころをよむ

  1. to guess what (someone) is thinking; to read (someone's) thoughts
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