IDENTITY
读dúto read; to study
HSK 1Top 280
CORE MEANING
to read; to study
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to readHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 讠speech radical (yán)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰讠卖
- speech radical
- gives the sound dú (historical)
USAGE
Common words
读书dúshūto read; to study
读者dúzhěreader
阅读yuèdúto read
Graded examples
他每天读中文书。Tā měitiān dú Zhōngwén shū.HSK2
He reads Chinese books every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 续
LEARNING
Memory aid
Speaking (讠) the words you sell (卖) from the page — reading aloud.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #280
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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