よむ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)
1. to read
2. to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
3. to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
4. to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
5. to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
6. to count; to estimate
now mostly used in idioms
7. to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
also written as 訓む
Pitch accent
よ
む
Top 23300
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age
to read (someone's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking
to read the situation; to sense the mood; to read the room
Examples (200 in total)
I am reading a book now.
Read this.
If you don't want to read, then don't read.