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01godan verb · transitive

02godan verb · transitive

to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant

03godan verb · transitive

to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine

04godan verb · transitive

to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)

05godan verb · transitive

to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)

06godan verb · transitive

to count; to estimate

now mostly used in idioms

07godan verb · transitive

to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

also written as 訓む

ミルトンの作品を読んだことがありますか。

Have you ever read Milton's works?

Tatoeba #195029

彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。

I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.

私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。

My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.

Tatoeba #12281611

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