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book
我喜歡讀書。I like reading books.
Related words (222)
a store room for books; (fig.) an erudite person; the Bibliotheca and Epitome of pseudo-Apollodorus
teashop with performance by 評書|评书 story tellers; (attached to name of publishing houses); (in former times) private school; library (of classic texts)
presidential award (received by university students in Taiwan for academic excellence)
credentials (of a diplomat); documents exchanged between nations; national or dynastic history book
imperial edict; heavenly book (superstition); obscure or illegible writing; double dutch
branch secretary; secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League; abbr. for 支部書記|支部书记
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper; (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
rhyming dictionary; traditional Chinese phonetic dictionary with words ordered first by four tones 四聲|四声 then rhyme 韻|韵 (i.e. medial consonant and final)
valuable book decorated with silver, gold and jewels etc, commonly regarded as a disguised form of bribe
bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects
literary journal published in 1892-93 by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆 featuring serialized novels in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular
to burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)
the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting); lute-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting (artistic accomplishments expected of scholars of letters); (the) accomplishments (of a well-educated person); accomplishments of a scholar of the old school (lute-playing, chess, calligraphy, and painting)
certificate of partial completion; certificate of attendance (for a student who did not graduate)
admission notice (delivered by a university); acceptance letter; letter of admission
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
Idioms (10)
(lit.) to drop a bag of books (idiom); fig. to drop quotations to appear learned; to quote classical texts as a parade of erudition
(lit.) to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book
(lit.) to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom); (fig.) to be diligent in one's studies
(lit.) pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience; still wet behind the ears
so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted; innumerable crimes (idiom); see also 罄筆難書
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