书
shū HSK1

book

书 書 shū
book noun
book; volumes or works of text or drawings bound together

那本书的名字是什么？

nà běn shū de míng​zi shì shén​me?

What's the name of that book?

to write nounadjective
to write; to record or write down
document noun
a formal document, certificate, or written statement

这封信是忏悔书。

zhè fēng xìn shì chàn​huǐ shū.

This letter is a confession.

letter noun
a letter; mail or correspondence
calligraphy style noun
(bound form) a style of calligraphy or script
storytelling
(bound form) certain forms of folk storytelling or oral performance
Classic of History
abbreviation for the 书经 shū​jīng
Shu
(proper noun) the surname Shu
art of writing
(literary) the art of writing or calligraphy as one of the Six Arts 六艺 liù​yì
character classification
refers to character structure or the six categories of Chinese characters 六书 liù​shū

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Frequency
Character
Written text
282nd most common 782.2 per million
Movie subtitles
503rd most common 285.2 per million appears in 58% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
213.2 per million appears in 37% of films
Written text
189.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
書
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+4E66

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)