读
dúdòu HSK1

read

读 讀 dú frequency
to read verb
to read; to read aloud; to read and understand a text

我从没读过那篇文章。

wǒ cóng méi dú guo nà piān wén​zhāng.

I've never read that article.

他们都可以读英语。

tā​men dōu kě​yǐ dú yīng​yǔ.

They can all read English.

to study verb
to attend school; to study a specific subject or major at school

我正在大学里读经济。

wǒ zhèng​zài dà​xué li dú jīng​jì.

I'm studying economics at university.

to pronounce noun
to be pronounced as; to have a certain reading or pronunciation
surname
a Chinese surname
读 讀 dòu
pause in reading
(bound form) a short pause made when reading a sentence aloud, shorter than a 句 jù; specifically used in the phrase 句读 jù​dòu

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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
Traditional
讀
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8BFB

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