What 读 means
读 means “read”; in some words, “study.”
Mandarin pinyin dú sounds roughly like “doo,” with a rising tone. In 句读, 读 is dòu (“doh,” falling), for a pause between clauses in classical Chinese.
The early dictionary Shuowen glosses 讀 as “reciting books,” an older reading-aloud sense.
Is 读 the same as 讀?
They are script forms of the same Chinese character.
Simplified Chinese uses 读; Traditional Chinese uses 讀. Japanese uses related 読.
Neutral in Chinese; the surrounding word sets the reading.
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Who writes 读
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Questions people ask
1Why does 读 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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\8BFBCodes and encoding1 code points
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content: "\8BFB";
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