朗读
lǎng dú · HSK 5
to read aloud
📖🗣️ 朗 (clear/bright) + 读 (read) = read clearly aloud
朗 means bright or clear-sounding, and 读 means to read. Together 朗读 is reading in a clear, resonant voice — the kind of reading done out loud for an audience, not silent reading to yourself.
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).