"Read" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 阅读 | yuè dú | to read / reading |   |
| 看 |  kàn | to see / to look at / to read / to watch / to visit / to call on / to consider / to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for | |
| 念 | niàn | to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4]) | |
| 读 | dú | to read out / to read aloud / to read / to attend (school) / to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce | |
| 读取 | dú qǔ | (of a computer etc) to read (data) | |
| 看书 | kàn shū | to read / to study | |
| 阅览 | yuè lǎn | to read | |
| 参阅 | cān yuè | to consult / to refer to / to read (instructions) | |
| 播报 | bō bào | to announce / to read (the news) | |
| 读出 | dú chū | to read out loud / (computing) to read (data) / readout (of a scientific instrument) | |
| 念书 | niàn shū | to read / to study / to attend school | |
| 拜读 | bài dú | (polite) to read (sth) | |
| 审读 | shěn dú | to read (a draft) / to review | |
| 阅 | yuè | to inspect / to review / to read / to peruse / to go through / to experience | |
| 览 | lǎn | to look at / to view / to read | |
| 籀 | zhòu | (literary) seal script used throughout the pre-Han period / to recite / to read (aloud) | |
| 涉览 | shè lǎn | to browse / to glance through / to read | |
| 读书 | dú shū | to read a book / to study / to attend school | |
| 朗读 | lǎng dú | to read aloud | |
| 借阅 | jiè yuè | to borrow books to read | |
| 博览 | bó lǎn | to read extensively | |
| 识字 | shí zì | to learn to read / able to read / literate | |
| 朗诵 | lǎng sòng | to read aloud with expression / to recite / to declaim | |
| 读懂 | dú dǒng | to read and understand | |
| 宣读 | xuān dú | to read out loud to an audience / a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference) | |
| 默念 | mò niàn | to read silently / to mouth (the words of a prayer etc) / to say to oneself / to contemplate inwardly | |
| 顺口 | shùn kǒu | to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food) | |
| 诵读 | sòng dú | to read aloud | |
| 精读 | jīng dú | to read carefully and thoroughly / intensive reading | |
| 上口 | shàng kǒu | to be able to read aloud fluently / to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud | |
| 涉猎 | shè liè | to skim (through a book) / to read cursorily / to dip into | |
| 熟读 | shú dú | to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it | |
| 再读 | zài dú | to read again / to review (a lesson etc) | |
| 读经 | dú jīng | to study the Confucian classics / to read scriptures or canonical texts | |
| 认字 | rèn zì | to learn to read / able to read / literate | |
| 读报 | dú bào | to read newspapers | |
| 吟诵 | yín sòng | to read aloud / to recite rhythmically / to chant / to intone (esp. poems in rhythm) | |
| 批阅 | pī yuè | to read through to evaluate / to referee | |
| 传阅 | chuán yuè | to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal | |
| 默读 | mò dú | to read in silence | |
| 念诵 | niàn sòng | to read out / to recite / to remember sb (while talking about sth else) | |
| 相 | xiàng | appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) | |
| 评阅 | píng yuè | to read and appraise | |
| 泛读 | fàn dú | (language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist / extensive reading | |
| 一目十行 | yī mù shí háng | ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly | |
| 略读 | lu:è dú | to read cursorily / to skim through | |
| 顺嘴 | shùn zuǐ | to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food) | |
| 唱票 | chàng piào | to read ballot slips out loud | |
| 诵 | sòng | to read aloud / to recite | |
| 忏 | chàn | (bound form) to feel remorse / (bound form) scripture read to atone for sb's sins (from Sanskrit "ksama") | |
| 先睹为快 | xiān dǔ wéi kuài | (idiom) to consider it a pleasure to be among the first to read (or watch or enjoy) | |
| 不识一丁 | bù shí yī dīng | total illiterate / unable to read the simplest characters | |
| 博闻强识 | bó wén qiáng shí | erudite / widely read and knowledgeable | |
| 呫哔 | tiè bì | to read aloud | |
| 呫毕 | tiè bì | to read aloud / also written 呫嗶|呫哔 | |
| 唸 | niàn | variant of 念, to read aloud | |
| 批八字 | pī bā zì | to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 / (sexagenary cycle) | |
| 捧读 | pěng dú | (courteous) to read respectfully | |
| 淹博 | yān bó | widely read / erudite | |
| 试读 | shì dú | to read a sample chapter of a book / to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis / to attend classes on a trial basis | |
| 诗礼 | Shī Lǐ | the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1jing1] and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3ji4]) | |
| 读破 | dú pò | 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] | |
| 读谱 | dú pǔ | to read a score / to read music | |
| 释读 | shì dú | to read and interpret ancient texts / to decipher | |
| 顺嘴儿 | shùn zuǐ r | to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food) | |
| 饱读 | bǎo dú | to read intensively | |
| 拜忏 | bài chàn | to hold a daytime Buddhist mass / (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins | |
| 安纳波利斯共同谅解 | Joint Understanding Read by President Bush at Annapolis Conference / Annapolis Joint Understanding | | |
| 一写多读装置 | Write Once, Read Many | | |
| 读万卷书，行万里路 | dú wàn juàn shū , xíng wàn lǐ lù | lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience | |
| 发蒙 | fā méng | (old) to instruct the young / to teach a child to read and write / as easy as ABC | |
| 读心 | dú xīn | to read sb's mind | |
| 博闻强识 | bó wén qiáng zhì | erudite / widely read and knowledgeable | |
| 可读 | kě dú | enjoyable to read / worth reading / readable / able to be read / legible / readable | |
| 通读 | tōng dú | to read through | |
| 品读 | pǐn dú | to read mindfully / to read with full engagement | |
| 眼力见 | yǎn lì jiàn | (dialect) ability to read situations and respond appropriately | |
| 识文断字 | shí wén - duàn zì | (idiom) able to read / literate | |
| 译介 | yì jiè | to introduce (a book etc) to people who don't read the language in which it was written by translating it | |
