Library in Chinese
library · HSK 3
图书馆
- 图 picture
- 书 book
- 馆 hall
Counted with 个: 一个图书馆
我每天下午去图书馆看书。 I go to the library to read every afternoon.
Other ways to say library
More words with 图 or 书 or 馆
How do you say library in Chinese?
Library in Chinese is 图书馆 (tú shū guǎn). You can also say 库 (kù).
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.