Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Transitive verb

to read

to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant

to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine

to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)

to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)

to count; to estimate

now mostly used in idiomssee サバを読む

to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

also written as 訓む