Initial:shVideo guide
Final(T3):ūVideo guide
Radical:
Structure:Single-component character
Strokes:
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Traditional:
書
ReadWriteQuiz
Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.write
书写
write
振笔直书
take up the pen and write vigorously
书法
calligraphy
- 2
n.book
是你把这些书放在我桌子上的吗？
Was it you who put these books on my desk?
这本书分析了贫困及其原因。
The book is an analysis of poverty and its causes.
这本书生动地表现了北京的生活。
The book gives us fascinating insights into life in Beijing.
- 3
n.style of calligraphy; script; handwriting
楷书
regular script
隶书
clerical script
- 4
n.document
国书
letter of credence
议定书
protocol
证书
certificate
- 5
n.letter
家书
a letter to home
书札
letters
synonym
Words and phrases with 书
- 书市[word]book fair
- 书稿[word]manuscript
- 书面形式[word]written form
- 书斋[word]study
- 书面[word]in writing
- 书报[word]books, newspapers, and periodicals
- 书卷气[word]bookishness
- 书记处[word]secretariat
- 书法[word]calligraphy
- 书符咒水[idiom]Taoist religious activities
- 书剑飘零[idiom]away from one's home in pursuit of scholarly honour or military task for a long time
- 书归正传[idiom]Let us come back to our main story.
- 书不尽言[idiom]cannot write out wholly what one wants to say
- 书生之见[idiom]a bookish approach
- 书读五车[idiom]be well read and learned
- 书空咄咄[idiom]in great disillusion
- 书缺简脱[idiom]books missing and letters incomplete
- 书香门第[idiom]a scholar-gentry family
Word usage
- common measure word"书" is often matched with measure word "本"or"卷"or"册".
一本书
one book
一卷书
one volume of a book
一册书
one volume of a book