读音
dú yīn · HSK 2
pronunciation
🗣️ 读音 = 读 (read) + 音 (sound) — the sound of reading
读 means to read aloud; 音 means sound or tone. Together they name the spoken sound of a character, especially its formal literary reading as opposed to a colloquial one.
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).