Shirabe
サバ を 読む
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expressions (phrasesGodan verb with 'mu' ending idiomatic expression to manipulate figures to one's advantage;to count wrongly on purpose;to inflate or deflate one's age
Other forms 鯖を読む 【さばをよむ】 · さばを読む 【さばをよむ】 (search-only kanji form)

読むよむ

Common Godan Transitive
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb leer
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to read
ミルトンの作品を読んだことがありますか。
Have you ever read Milton's works?
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to recite (e.g. a sutra);to chant
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to predict;to guess;to forecast;to read (someone's thoughts);to see (e.g. into someone's heart);to divine
彼女の心の動きを読むことさえできなかった。
I could not even make a guess at the working of her mind.
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to pronounce;to read (e.g. a kanji)
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to decipher;to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.);to tell (the time)
私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。
My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to count;to estimate
now mostly used in idioms
See also: サバを読む (さばをよむ)
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Godan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
also written as 訓む
Other forms 讀む 【よむ】 (search-only kanji form) · 訓む 【よむ】 (search-only kanji form)