The word **读取** is a modern Chinese compound formed through the common morphological process of combining two verbs with related meanings to create a more specific, technical term. It combines **读** (*dú*), meaning "to read" (as in text or data), with **取** (*qǔ*), meaning "to take," "to fetch," or "to extract." Together, the compound semantically conveys the action of "reading and extracting" information, which precisely aligns with its primary meaning in computing and data processing: **"to read (data)"**—that is, to access and retrieve stored information from a memory device, file, or database.