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読む [ichi1,news1,nf12] ；讀む [sK] ；訓む [sK]
【よむ [ichi1,news1,nf12] 】

[v5m,vt]
▶ to read

[v5m,vt]
▶ to recite (e.g. a sutra)
▶ to chant

[v5m,vt]
▶ to predict
▶ to guess
▶ to forecast
▶ to read (someone's thoughts)
▶ to see (e.g. into someone's heart)
▶ to divine

[v5m,vt]
▶ to pronounce
▶ to read (e.g. a kanji)

[v5m,vt]
▶ to decipher
▶ to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.)
▶ to tell (the time)

[v5m,vt]
《now mostly used in idioms》
▶ to count
▶ to estimate

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1593810 サバを読む 1. to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age

[v5m,vt]
《also written as 訓む》
▶ to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Conjugations

History:

15.	A 2024-09-22 17:23:05 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -61 +61 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="1593810">さばを読む</xref> +<xref type="see" seq="1593810">サバを読む</xref>
14.	A 2024-01-25 15:57:17 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, daij
	Diff:	@@ -55,2 +55,2 @@ -<gloss>to tell (time)</gloss> -<gloss>to read (music)</gloss> +<gloss>to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>to tell (the time)</gloss>
13.	A* 2024-01-23 01:58:32 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Prog has "tell time" and "read music" examples for the "decipher" sense ("特殊な記号などを…").
	Diff:	@@ -54,0 +55,2 @@ +<gloss>to tell (time)</gloss> +<gloss>to read (music)</gloss>
12.	A 2023-10-24 04:46:02 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	As suggested in 訓む (2256290) - now deleted. I'll go along with those senses being different.
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12,4 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>訓む</keb>
11.	A* 2023-10-08 12:37:48 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Does this overlap with sense 7?
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10.	A* 2023-10-08 02:39:18 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	See sense 1 of 読み方 .
	Diff:	@@ -43,0 +44,6 @@ +<gloss>to pronounce</gloss> +<gloss>to read (e.g. a kanji)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> @@ -57 +62,0 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="2256290">訓む</xref>
9.	A 2022-08-23 08:05:47 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	読む 49258694 100.0% 讀む 9417 0.0%
	Diff:	@@ -12 +12 @@ -<ke_inf>&oK;</ke_inf> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
8.	A* 2022-08-21 02:56:41 Cuyler Otsuka <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>讀む</keb> +<ke_inf>&oK;</ke_inf>
7.	A 2021-09-02 00:04:37 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6.	A* 2021-09-01 16:06:50 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij, meikyo, gg5, prog
	Comments:	Added senses.
	Diff:	@@ -24,3 +24,2 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="1593810">さばを読む</xref> -<s_inf>now mostly used in idioms</s_inf> -<gloss>to count</gloss> +<gloss>to recite (e.g. a sutra)</gloss> +<gloss>to chant</gloss> @@ -30,0 +30 @@ +<gloss>to predict</gloss> @@ -32 +32 @@ -<gloss>to predict</gloss> +<gloss>to forecast</gloss> @@ -35,0 +36,20 @@ +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to decipher</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<xref type="see" seq="1593810">さばを読む</xref> +<s_inf>now mostly used in idioms</s_inf> +<gloss>to count</gloss> +<gloss>to estimate</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<xref type="see" seq="2256290">訓む</xref> +<s_inf>also written as 訓む</s_inf> +<gloss>to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading</gloss>
5.	A 2014-05-06 06:01:52 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
4.	A* 2014-05-06 01:17:25 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	GG5, Daijr, ルミナス, etc.
	Comments:	Some refs break this into many senses - it's all a bit subtle. Where does 時間が読めない fit in, for example?
	Diff:	@@ -27,0 +28,9 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to guess</gloss> +<gloss>to predict</gloss> +<gloss>to read (someone's thoughts)</gloss> +<gloss>to see (e.g. into someone's heart)</gloss> +<gloss>to divine</gloss> +</sense>
3.	A 2012-06-02 07:24:16 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2.	A* 2012-06-02 04:04:43 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, meikyo
	Comments:	i think they're better separate
	Diff:	@@ -24,0 +24,2 @@ +<xref type="see" seq="1593810">さばを読む</xref> +<s_inf>now mostly used in idioms</s_inf>
1.	A* 2012-05-31 09:07:08 Marcus
	Refs:	daijr, 大阪弁普及会 (though daijr makes no mention of it being dialectal) should these two be merged into this one? 訓む, 詠む daijr has no separate entry for 訓む (but a usage note for one sense), but a separate entry for 詠む daijs keep 読む and 詠む in one entry and has a usage note for 訓む in it nikkoku keeps 読・詠 together (and also has 詠, なが・む) but from what I can tell, no entry for 訓む
	Diff:	@@ -21,0 +21,5 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to count</gloss> +</sense>

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