读
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 讀
To read, especially aloud; also to study at a school. 读课文 is 'read the text aloud'; silent reading is more often 看书. 读书 means both 'to read books' and 'to go to school, to study', and 读大学 is 'to be at university'.
Đọc, nhất là đọc thành tiếng; cũng có nghĩa là học (ở một trường). 读课文 là đọc bài khóa; đọc thầm thì thường nói 看书. 读书 vừa là “đọc sách” vừa là “đi học”; 读大学 là học đại học.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “读” mean?
To read, especially aloud; also to study at a school. 读课文 is 'read the text aloud'; silent reading is more often 看书. 读书 means both 'to read books' and 'to go to school, to study', and 读大学 is 'to be at university'.
Is “读” formal or informal?
读 is generally neutral.