"你会读这个字吗？"

Translation: Can you read this word?

[Daniel835570]

What's the difference between kan and du?

[HannesB3]

Zi is character not word

[JustusRobi3]

Yes, zì generally refers to Chinese characters; and in Chinese, since the characters are run together, rather than grouped into "words" of several characters, it is not clear what counts as a "word" in Chinese. Therefore, zì is better translated as "character" rather than word.

[e1VpVxkl]

Can you read this CHARACTER? = Accepted: Nov. 19, 2019.

[WynterEvergreen]

字 is a word

[CalvinN4]

Semantics. Word and character are the same for pictographic languages like Chinese and hieroglyphics

[Jocke190028]

A character is a word. However i always use 字儿to refer to characters

[ErikStrelz]

Would 词 (cí) be used more commonly, or no?

[Seiryuu]

词 is used in the context of "lyrics" or a "line" of poetry.

[Rk5I3]

How do you pronounce them together? Ze`r?

[DebbieJust]

How does 会 become 'can' instead of 'will'? I wrote "will you read this character" and was marked incorrect. Why?

[Melarish]

It means both 'can' and 'will'

[Anastasia_LL]

DU means "to read aloud, to pronounce", KAN means "to read silently"

[Donard6]

"Are you able" is just as good a translation as "Can you" and should be accepted

[CalvinN4]

Zi is differently translated as character and word in this app. Can we please be consistent

[Donard6]

or can you please arrange to accept both? Remember that translation is an approximate mapping from one language to another

[Andrew-Lin]

你會讀這個字嗎？

[Alex119913]

Why 读 and not 看?

[SamiAezy]

Shouldn't "Will you study this character?" be accepted since 读 can be translated as "to read" and "to study"?

[AlexZhang815693]

I did this one twice

[Meemansa9]

I guess 'du' is for 'reading aloud'.

[Meemansa9]

Can we use " 你 可以 读 这个 字吗？” for "can you read this character"?