Taxonomy of meanings for 讀:　　

  • 讀 dú (OC: ɡ-looɡ MC: duk) 徒谷切 入 廣韻：【讀誦 】
    • READ
      • vt(oN)read out the contextually determinate (sometimes: 對我 for me)
      • vt[oN]read texts (more or less) aloud for oneself
      • vtoNread out, recite or at least mumble (usually prose); pronounce cf. even Jin Yong: 讀給他聽。　聽清客讀了，很感興味。
  • dúSTUDY
    • vtoNread systematically, study (and learn by heart)CH

Additional information about 讀

說文解字:

    Criteria
  • READ

    1. The general word for reading out a written text (there was probably no silent reading in pre-Buddhist China) was dú 讀. See Platform Sutra Tanjing 2.8.4 for a nice example. NB: reciting texts for oneself was a way of studying these, so that by Han times the word sometimes came close to meaning "study".

    2. Lǎn 覽, guān 觀, and dǔ 睹 can occasionally refer to the running one's eyes over a text (probably mumbling it in the process, but there is no evidence whatever to substantiate this assumption) and thus reading it.

    3. Jiàn 見 can occasionally refer to the looking at a text to see what it says.

    4. Fēng 諷 refers to the current practise of reading a certain text.

  • PUNCTUATION

    jù dòu fǎ 句讀法

    Word relations
  • Contrast: (READ)誦/CHANT The current word for chanting poetry in a deeply emotional manner for the benefit of others is yǒng 詠;
  • Contrast: (READ)觀/READ Lǎn 覽, guān 觀, and dǔ 睹 can occasionally refer to the running one's eyes over a text (probably mumbling it in the process, but there is no evidence whatever to substantiate this assumption) and thus reading it.
  • Contrast: (READ)誦/CHANT The current word for chanting poetry in a deeply emotional manner for the benefit of others is yǒng 詠;
  • Contrast: (READ)諷/READ Fěng 諷 refers to the current practise of reading a certain text.
  • Contrast: (READ)頌/CHANT
  • Assoc: (READ)觀/READ Lǎn 覽, guān 觀, and dǔ 睹 can occasionally refer to the running one's eyes over a text (probably mumbling it in the process, but there is no evidence whatever to substantiate this assumption) and thus reading it.