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 decipher
5. to count; to estimate
now mostly used in idioms
6. to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
also written as 訓む
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age
to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking
to read the situation; to sense the mood
Examples (200 in total)
Read this.
If you don't want to read, then don't read.
What are you reading?