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[どく()·しょ()]
dokusho
noun, suru verb

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[とく()·しょ()]
tokusho
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English Meaning(s) for 読書

noun, suru verb
  1. reading (books)

Definition and Synonyms for 読書

Read interpret something that is written or printed
Synonyms: 多読, 披見, 拝見, 拝読, 書見, 紐解く, 読む, 読書, 閲覧, 閲読
Reading the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
Synonyms: リーディング, 拝読, 読み, 読む, 読書, 読み物, 閲覧, 閲読
Literate a person who can read and write
Synonyms: 読書

Meanings for each kanji in 読書

» read
» write

Categories 読書 is a member of

Individual a human being
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Interpret make sense of
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Linguistic Process the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
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Stroke Order Diagrams for 読書

Sample Sentences for 読書

She has a taste for reading.
There are many people in the world who complain that they are too busy to read.
He is tired of reading.
I spent the best part of the day in reading.
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.

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