# 読 — Read

Frequency rank 219 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 加 (Add), less common than 公 (Public).

- On’yomi: どく、とく、とう
- Kun’yomi: よ
- Radical: 言 Speech (Kangxi 149)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 14

The tongue flaps out slab after slab of small print and the salesman prices each one, stacking them on the counter as a boxed set.

In words:

- 読む よむ — to read
- 読み よみ — reading
- 読書 どくしょ — reading

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