讀

讀 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜口土田金 (YRGWC), four-corner 0468₆, composition ⿰訁賣 or ⿰訁𧶠)

• 𭍏, 讟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1185, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36088
• Dae Jaweon: page 1649, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4029, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8B80

• Unihan data for U+F95A

Historical forms of the character 讀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic 言 (“to say”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).

“To say aloud, to tell” (Shijing) > “to recite” > “to read”.

Cognate with Tibetan ཀློག (klog, “to read; to recite”). Starostin sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lok (“to recite; to give notice”) for this, and also includes Burmese လျှောက် (hlyauk, “to tell; to ask; to petition; word-for-word translation; indiscriminately”) and Mizo thlûk (“accent, tone, intonation”). Related to 讟 (OC *l'oːɡ, “resentment, slander < to grumble; complaint”).

STEDT provisionally sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-g-(l/r)əwk (“to read”), relating it to 牘 (OC *l'oːɡ, “tablet”).

Sagart (1999) argues that “read” cannot be the primary meaning, since existence of the concept “to read” before the invention of writing is questionable. There is likely no writing at the time of the split between Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages, therefore the Tibetan word may represent a borrowing from Chinese.

讀

1. ^† to say aloud; to tell
2. to read (silently); to peruse

   Synonym: 看

   讀書／读书  ―  dúshū  ―  to read; reading

   閱讀／阅读  ―  yuèdú  ―  to read

   這篇文章值得一讀。 [MSC, trad.]
   这篇文章值得一读。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè piān wénzhāng zhíde yī dú.

   This article is worth reading.

3. to read aloud; to read out

   朗讀／朗读  ―  lǎngdú  ―  to read aloud

   有邊讀邊，沒邊讀中間 [MSC, trad.]
   有边读边，没边读中间 [MSC, simp.]

   yǒu biān dú biān, méi biān dú zhōngjiān

   read the side if any; read the middle part if there is no side

   二讀／二读  ―  èrdú  ―  second reading (of a bill)

4. to study

   讀大學／读大学  ―  dú dàxué  ―  to study at a university

   讀會計／读会计 [Cantonese]  ―  duk⁶ wui⁶ gai³   ―  to study accounting

5. to pronounce (a character, a word, etc.)

   Synonym: 唸／念 (niàn)

   這個字怎麼讀？／这个字怎么读？  ―  Zhège zì zěnme dú?  ―  How do you pronounce this character?

6. pronunciation

   讀音／读音  ―  dúyīn  ―  pronunciation (of characters)

   異讀／异读  ―  yìdú  ―  variant pronunciation

   文讀／文读  ―  wéndú  ―  literary reading

• → Vietnamese: đọc
• → Zhuang: doeg

A late attested reading. Starostin thinks it is from the *-s pronunciation of Etymology 1.

讀

1. short pause in reading; part of a sentence; clause

   句讀／句读  ―  jùdòu  ―  periods and commas, sentences and clauses

• “Entry #13262”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 読)

1. to read
2. (とう) phrase, clause, part of a sentence, e.g. 読点 (lit. "clause mark", i.e. comma)

• Go-on: ず (zu)^{←づ (du, historical)}、どく (doku)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)、とく (toku)
• Kun: よむ (yomu, 讀む)

From Middle Chinese 讀 (MC duwk).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

讀

Wikisource

讀 (eumhun 읽을 독 (ilgeul dok))

1. hanja form^? of 독 (“to read”)

From Middle Chinese 讀 (MC duwH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

讀 (eumhun 구절 두 (gujeol du))

1. hanja form^? of 두 (“short pause in reading, part of a sentence, clause”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

讀: Hán Nôm readings: độc, đọc, đậu, đặt

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