Books in Chinese
books · HSK 5
图书
- 图 picture
- 书 book
Counted with 本: 一本图书
这家书店的图书种类很多。 This bookstore has many kinds of books.
Other ways to say books
More words with 图 or 书
How do you say books in Chinese?
Books in Chinese is 图书 (tú shū). You can also say 书籍 (shū jí).
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?
Our own 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 our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.