宣读
xuān dú · HSK 7
to read out loud to an audience
📢📜 宣 declare + 读 read = read a text aloud so a crowd hears it
读 — speech radical 讠 + 卖 (mài, sell)
读 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (speech) gives the meaning, since reading is tied to speaking words aloud. The right side 卖 originally provided the sound; in the traditional form 讀 the phonetic was 賣 (yù/dú).