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DEFINITIONS: In the following, I will use some specialized terms used in phonics.

phonics : a method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by learning the usual sound of letters, letter groups, and syllables (Merriam-Webster)

GPC : This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa.

Blending : This involves looking at a written word, looking at each grapheme and using knowledge of GPCs to work out which phoneme each grapheme represents and then merging these phonemes together to make a word. This is the basis of reading.

Segmenting : This involves hearing a word, splitting it up into the phonemes that make it, using knowledge of GPCs to work out which graphemes represent those phonemes and then writing those graphemes down in the right order. This is the basis of spelling. [1]

(1) According to Pleco's LA and GF dictionaries, 拼读 involves pronouncing the word (or syllable) as a whole, not spelling it out letter by letter.

LA ~ 按拼音規則讀出音節或詞句。如把g和ē拼合成gē，ㄏ和ㄜ拼合成ㄏㄜ，並讀出。

GF ~ (動) 按照拼音規則讀出音節或詞句 。 Example: 他對漢語拼音不熟, 拼讀很吃力。

(2) The Chinese term for phonics is 自然拼读, and the Chinese term for blending is 拼读. So 拼读 is the opposite of spelling out (segmenting).

Example: <<自然拼读（Phonics）核心是建立字母(letter)与语音(sound)之间的对应关系。 ... Blending(拼读）可以是用Letter sound直接拼读出单词（比如C-A-T拼读成CAT），...>> [2]

(3) Another example: 汉语拼音“quan”怎么拼读？ [3]

That's clearly about reading the whole syllable, not spelling it out, because the spelling is given in the first place!

(4) One more: The New Century E-C Dict definition of "acronym": 首字母縮略詞(各單詞首字母組合的或單詞的部分字母組成的可拼讀的詞, 如UNESCO為United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization的首字母縮略詞)

可拼讀的詞 doesn't mean that the letters can be spelled out. The letters of an initialism, such as BBC, can always be spelled out. It means that the letters can be pronounced as a word.

(5) If 拼读 can also mean "spell out", as ABC says, then it is a contronym. But the "spell out" sense, if it exists, seems to be relatively rare.