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Schoolbag in Chinese

schoolbag · HSK 2

书包 shū bāo

  1. 书 shū book
  2. 包 bāo to wrap

Counted with 个: 一个书包 yí gè shūbāo

我的书包里有三本书。 There are three books in my schoolbag.

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How do you say schoolbag in Chinese?

Schoolbag in Chinese is 书包 (shū bāo).

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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