Notebook in Chinese
notebook · HSK 2
本子
- 本 root
- 子 son
Counted with 本: 一本本子
我把电话写在本子上了。 I wrote the phone number in my notebook.
Other ways to say notebook
More words with 本 or 子
How do you say notebook in Chinese?
Notebook in Chinese is 本子 (běn zi). You can also say 笔记本 (bǐ jì běn).
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.