讀
dúdòu HSK1

read

读 (讀) dú frequency
read verb
to read or look through written material

他在读一本非常有意思的小说。

tā zài dú yī běn fēi​cháng yǒu​yì​si de xiǎo​shuō.

He is reading a very interesting novel.

study verb
to attend an educational institution or study a specific subject

你大学打算去哪个城市读？

nǐ dà​xué dǎ​suàn qù něi gè chéng​shì dú?

Which city do you plan to go to for university?

read aloud verb
to read out loud or to pronounce text

请把这篇文章的第一段读一遍。

qǐng bǎ zhè piān wén​zhāng de dì​yī duàn dú yī biàn.

Please read the first paragraph of this article once.

读 (讀) dòu
pause verb
a pause in reading or a phrase marked by a pause, especially in the context of punctuating classical Chinese text

句读之不知，惑之不解。

jù dòu zhī bù zhī, huò zhī bù​jiě.

Unable to punctuate correctly and unable to resolve confusion.

Frequency
Character
Written text
752nd most common 249.6 per million
Movie subtitles
818th most common 152.4 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
138.9 per million appears in 36% of films
Written text
98.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
读
Strokes
22
Unicode
U+8B80

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)