Book in Chinese
book · HSK 1
书
Counted with 本: 一本书
我在看一本有意思的书。 I'm reading an interesting book.
Other ways to say book
More words with 书
How do you say book in Chinese?
Book in Chinese is 书 (shū). You can also say 订 (dìng), 册 (cè), 预订 (yù dìng), 预约 (yù yuē).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.