Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
  • 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
  • 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
  • 読点 【トウテン】 comma
  • 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
  • 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kun reading compounds

  • 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Readings

Japanese names:
よみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
Korean:
dog, du

Spanish

  • leer

Portuguese

  • leia

French

  • lire
123 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
206 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
189 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
55 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
88 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2142 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
244 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1689 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1038 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
354 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35580P Morohashi
1541 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5629 New Nelson (John Haig)
348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
372 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
323 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
233 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
7a7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0461.2 Four corner code
1-38-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8aad Unicode hex code

2 strokes
Radical:
hook
Parts:
complete, finish
On:
リョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
792 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 了 【リョウ】 finish, completion, the end
  • 諒 【リョウ】 fact, truth, understanding, consideration
  • 満了 【マンリョウ】 expiration, termination
  • 未了 【ミリョウ】 unfinished, unfilled (order), unexecuted

Readings

Japanese names:
さとる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
liao3, le5
Korean:
ryo

Spanish

  • completar
  • alcanzar un fin
  • finalizar
  • comprender

Portuguese

  • Completar
  • fim

French

  • achevé
  • fini
1905 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
919 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
268 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1018 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
293 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
9 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
941 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
971 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
818 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
273 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4157 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2107 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2852 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
98 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
226 Morohashi
3350 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
67 New Nelson (John Haig)
97 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
101 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1008 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3553 2001 Kanji
2c0.3 The Kanji Dictionary
4-2-1 SKIP code
4-1-1 SKIP code
1720.7 Four corner code
1-46-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e86 Unicode hex code