Illustration: At a Japanese community center craft table, a participant studies an open instruction booklet containing a sequence of paper-folding pictures. Their eyes follow the final illustrated fold while their hands reproduce it on a small paper crane. The finished shape clearly matches the pictured result.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

読よみ取とる

yomitoru

to read and understand

Example sentences

  1. 言外げんがいの意味いみを読よみ取とるならば、この手紙てがみはお金かねの無心むしんです。

    If you read between the lines, this letter is a request for money.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 言外げんがいの意味いみを読よみとらなければいけない。

    You must read between the lines.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 「わび茶ちゃ」の発生はっせいはこのような時代相じだいしょうを背景はいけいとしており、同書どうしょからは生々なまなましくその空気くうきを読よみ取とることができる。

    Such social climate contributed to the emergence of 'wabicha', and the book vividly conveys the atmosphere at the time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 読取

  • 読readOnドク・トク・トウKunよむ
  • 取takeOnシュKunとる・とり・とり-

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