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reading in a monotone voice / reading Classical Chinese text by the Chinese word order, ignoring the kaeriten

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棒読み

Source Word

棒読み

Hiragana

ぼうよみ

Noun

reading in a monotone voice / reading Classical Chinese text by the Chinese word order, ignoring the kaeriten

Japanese Meaning

棒読み

Easy Japanese Meaning

声の高さをあまりかえずに、気持ちがないように文字をそのまま読むこと

彼のプレゼンテーションは棒読みで、、聴衆はすぐに飽きてしまった。。

His presentation was in a monotone voice, and the audience quickly got bored.

Sense（1）

reading in a monotone voice

Sense（2）

reading Classical Chinese text by the Chinese word order, ignoring the kaeriten

棒 (ぼう)読 (よ)み

（ canonical ）

bōyomi

（ romanization ）