How to say "reading" in Japanese

• リーディングCommon
  nounThe English loanword, used mainly for the reading skill in language study, where it contrasts with listening and writing; also for borrowed English senses such as a reading of a script or a tarot reading.
• 解釈かいしゃくJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers 'reading' in the sense of interpretation — how you construe a text, law, remark or situation. It is the word for 'one possible reading of the poem' or 'a broad reading of the law'.
  それは２通とおりに解釈かいしゃくできる。↗

  That reads two different ways.
• 読みよみJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounA broad noun: the act of reading, the way a character or word is read (its pronunciation), a meter reading, and 'reading' as one's interpretation or prediction, as in 'my reading of the situation'.
• 読書どくしょJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbReading as an activity or pastime — reading books. It suits 'I spend the weekend reading' or 'a reading habit', but not the reading of a particular passage, sign or meter.
  読書どくしょの暇ひまがない。↗

  I have no leisure for reading.
• 閲覧えつらんJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb'Reading' as viewing or going through documents, records or web pages — consulting files, viewing a website, checking page views. Closer to 'perusal' or 'inspection' than to reading for pleasure.

Use 「リーディング」 for the language-learning skill and borrowed English uses, 解釈 for interpretation, 「読み」 for the act or way of reading and one's assessment, 読書 for reading books as an activity, and 閲覧 for viewing documents or web pages.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• リーディングreading
• 解釈かいしゃくinterpretation
• 読みよみreading
• 読書どくしょreading (books)
• 閲覧えつらんinspection
• 読み取りよみとりreading (e.g. by a scanner)
• 読み方よみかたpronunciation
• リードreading
• 読み込みよみこみreading
• 拝読はいどくreading
• 読み出しよみだしreading
• 書見しょけんreading
• 披見ひけんreading
• 講読こうどくreading
• 笑覧しょうらん(your) reading (of my work)
• 読会どっかいreading (of a bill)
• 閲読えつどくreading
• 笑読しょうどく(your) reading (of my work)
• 読み聞かせよみきかせreading (a book) out loud
• 看破かんぱseeing through (e.g. someone's lies)
• 縦覧じゅうらんinspection
• 示度しどindication
• 数値すうちfigure