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读 — to read out; to read aloud

to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend; to study

Pinyin
dú · dòu
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — dú, dòu — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 读: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

读 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 读

Words with 读 in the HSK syllabus: 11

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 读dúto read out; to read aloud; to readHSK 1
  2. 读书dúshūto read a book; to study; to attend schoolHSK 1
  3. 读者dúzhěreaderHSK 4
  4. 阅读yuèdúto read; readingHSK 4
  5. 读音dúyīnpronunciationHSK 5
  6. 解读jiědúto decipher; to decode; to interpretHSK 6
  7. 就读jiùdúto go to schoolHSK 6
  8. 朗读lǎngdúto read aloudHSK 6
  9. 读物dúwùreading materialHSK 7–9
  10. 攻读gōngdúto majorHSK 7–9
  11. 宣读xuāndúto read out loud to an audience; a prepared speechHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.