noun:

• reading comprehension; ability to read and understand

noun:

• karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading ➜ カルタ・読み札・取り札

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• marks to aid in reading Chinese classics

noun:

• Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids Antonym: 点本

noun:

• mixed on-kun kanji reading ➜ 湯桶読み

expression:

• by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends (Mencius) - four character idiom

noun:

• sutra-reading desk

noun / ~する noun:

• reading

noun:

• Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids ➜ 無点本

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it ➜ 素読【そどく】
• reading a second draft without checking it against the original

noun:

• reading a book in turn

noun / ~する noun:

• reading a word backwards (often to make slang) ➜ ズージャー・ぱいおつ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be absorbed in reading ➜ 耽る

noun:

• outstanding reading ability; one glance, ten lines [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• approving a document without adequately reading it; rubber-stamping - sensitive

noun:

• reading kanji in a nonstandard way

godan ~む verb:

• to go on reading

noun / ~する noun:

• secondary reading

noun / ~する noun:

• chanting or reading the sutras

noun / ~する noun:

• reading; loading - IT term

noun:

• the Japanese reading of a kanji

noun:

• reading music

noun:

• forward reading - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• reading surreptitiously