I teach.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
教书
to work as a teacher; to teach (in a school)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to work as a teacher; to teach (in a school)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 教书 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 教书 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The teacher is teaching.
You used to teach, right?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 教书.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 教书.
Directly before
- 以教书2
- 我教书1
- 中学教书1
- 女校教书1
- 他教书1
Directly after
- 教书为生2
- 教书教1
- 教书的1
- 教书教得1
- 教书是1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 教书
What does 教书 mean in Chinese?
教书 (jiāoshū) means to work as a teacher; to teach (in a school).
How do you pronounce 教书?
教书 is pronounced jiāoshū.
Is 教书 an HSK word?
教书 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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